Publish Java artifact to Maven Local with Gradle

Add maven plugin to your project and then: gradle clean install

The correct task to publish artifacts to local maven is

gradle publishToMavenLocal

Check Maven locally

For developing and testing it is useful to check library locally

gradle settings for apply plugin: 'com.android.library' not apply plugin: 'java-library'(where you can use it by default)

apply plugin: 'maven-publish'

//simple settings
project.afterEvaluate {
    publishing {
        publications {
            library(MavenPublication) {
                //setGroupId groupId
                setGroupId "com.company"
                //setArtifactId artifactId
                setArtifactId "HelloWorld"
                version "1.1"

                artifact bundleDebugAar

/* add a dependency into generated .pom file
                pom.withXml {
                    def dependenciesNode = asNode().appendNode('dependencies')
                    def dependencyNode = dependenciesNode.appendNode('dependency')
                    dependencyNode.appendNode('groupId', 'com.company')
                    dependencyNode.appendNode('artifactId', 'HelloWorld-core')
                    dependencyNode.appendNode('version', '1.1')

                }
*/
            }
        }
    }
}

to run it using command line or find this command in Gradle tab

./gradlew publishToMavenLocal

Location

artefact will be added into .m2 folder

//Unix
~/.m2

//Windows
C:\Users\<username>\.m2

//For example
/Users/alex/.m2/repository/<library_path>/<version>/<name>.<extension>

build folder

<project_path>/build/outputs/<extension>

other repositories location

~/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/<group_id>/<artifact_id>/<version>/<id>

//For example
/Users/alex/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.company/HelloWorld/1.1/c84ac8bc425dcae087c8abbc9ecdc27fafbb664a

To use it add mavenLocal(). It is important to place it as a first item for prioritise it, which is useful for internal dependencies

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
    }

allprojects {
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
    }
}

and

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.company:HelloWorld:+'
}

*Also remember if you use a kind of shared.gradle file (via apply from) you should set path which is relevant to project.gradle (not shared.gradle)

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