Build fails due to a dependency on bintray

[Grandolf49]

Summary

As of May 1st, 2021, Bintray is no longer in service. Refer this article. Since one of the libraries in the project depend on Bintray (refer this) the build is throwing the following error

Could not GET 'http://dl.bintray.com/amulyakhare/maven/androidx/navigation/navigation-runtime/maven-metadata.xml'. Received status code 502 from server: Bad Gateway
Disable Gradle 'offline mode' and sync project

Steps to reproduce

Open the project in the latest version of Android Studio and build the application.

Expected behavior

After cloning, the app should build successfully without any issues

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Resolution

Some contributors have forked and published the library to a different distribution service. Refer this.
Import the library from any such source