Pull dependencies from jcenter

[ghost]

All dependencies are also available on jcenter. If those are pulled from this location we could enable auto-updates on f-droid: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=osmtracker&fdid=me.guillaumin.android.osmtracker

The only problem i'm seeing here is, that slf4j-android-1.5.8.jar is not available on jcenter. The oldest version available is the 1.6.1-RC1:

https://bintray.com/bintray/jcenter/org.slf4j:slf4j-android

which i'm currently pulling in for the f-droid build.

[nguillaumin]

Yeah I did that initially when I converted the project to Gradle but the lack of slf4j-android in the right version made me roll it back. Since SLF4j is used by OSMDroid it's not easy to know if upgrading it will break things or not.

What do you mean by "auto-updates on F-Droid"? How is that related to pulling the dependencies from Maven central instead of embedding them?

Thanks.

[ghost]

What do you mean by "auto-updates on F-Droid"? How is that related to pulling the dependencies from Maven central instead of embedding them?

The goal of f-droid is to replaced .jar files within an apps build process with "trusted" one from maven central / jcenter. Currently this is done by using this search/replace within the build.gradle:

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/metadata/me.guillaumin.android.osmtracker.txt#L69

which doesn't allow auto-building the app as the dependencies always needs to be checked if the correct versions are used. If the build.gradle is pulling all files directly from maven central / jcenter the auto-update could be enabled as it needs no manual check.

[nguillaumin]

Ok makes sense. It seems osmdroid-android is using SLF4j 1.6.1 anyway according to their POM