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How can I publish an aar to maven using gradle kotlin dsl? The android docs only give instructions for Groovy... <https://developer.android.com/studio/build/maven-publish-plugin>

And what is your problem with translating it to Kotlin DSL? The principle should be the same, just a little bit different in Syntax details

I don't have any idea where to find the `components.release` mentioned... another one of Groovy's magic tricks...

If there is no static accessor, then use the verbose variant: `components.named("release")`

Thanks! And how do I translate
```release(MavenPublication) { .. }```
?

Is it:
``` create("release", MavenPublication::class.java) {
             ...   
            }```
? It's hard to know what the Android plugin does for you, and what still needs to be done...

```create&lt;MavenPublication&gt;("release") {```


<https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/publishing_maven.html#publishing_maven>

Oh.. so `
```components["java"]```
needs to be
```components["release"]```
? the thing is I tried the instructions there, but they didn't seem to work on Android... and the Android ones don't show kts... googling gave me articles and examples from 2019... or 2017..

What does that key used in components represent here? The created publication, or something Android provides?

The gradle docs say:
&gt;  Currently 3 types of component are supported: 'components.java' (added by the JavaPlugin), 'components.web' (added by the WarPlugin) and `components.javaPlatform` (added by the JavaPlatformPlugin).

&gt; Oh.. so `
&gt; components["java"]
&gt; needs to be
&gt; components["release"]
&gt; ?
Why?
The gradle docs say:
&gt;  Currently 3 types of component are supported: 'components.java' (added by the JavaPlugin), 'components.web' (added by the WarPlugin) and `components.javaPlatform` (added by the JavaPlatformPlugin).
I guess the Android plugin adds that component but due to that there is not static accessor and you have to use the `named` method

The named method doesn't return a `SoftwareComponent` expected by `from()`...

So I though that components can just be used as a Map implementation to retrieve what the Android plugin provides...

`components.named("release")` is from the lazy api, it gives you a `Provider&lt;SoftwareComponent&gt;` if you need the `SoftwareComponent`, either get it from the provider or right away use `components.getByName("release")` or as you said `components["release"]` should also work

Thanks alot, it's working now :smiley:! I guess this takes a bit of getting used to...