*`_What should_ we do _about the current android project?_`* UPDATE: To better support the communit...

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[Aslam Hossin]

_What should_ we do _about the current android project?_
UPDATE: To better support the community in this migration, JFrog has extended the JCenter new package versions submission deadline through March 31st 2021.

To clarify, the JCenter repository will keep serving packages for 12 months until February 1st 2022. Only the JCenter REST API and UI will be sunsetted on May 1st 2021.

[Vampire]

What exactly is your question?

[Aslam Hossin]

If JCentre support has shut down then what will happen those projects used JCentre hosted 3rd party library?

[Vampire]

They have to nicely ask the library maintainers to switch to another repository, for example Maven Central and then change their builds to point to that instead.

[Aslam Hossin]

Google also used JCentre cloud services for some of there libraries. Concerns me if some of the things not maintain properly then what will happen or what should I do ?

[Vampire]

Overtake maintenance :-)

[Vampire]

In the very worst case, check them into VCS with your project or get it hosted somewhere else and use it from there or whatever.

[Vampire]

There is no general advice that can be given

[Aslam Hossin]

@Vampire thank you for your time and i think alikes.

[gildor]

You also can copy already published files to your own repository

[gildor]

This what we plan to do in a month or two with all libraries which will not be updated and republished

[gildor]

I would recommend to start preparing now, just keep jcenter only for libraries which are available only there (there is Gradle repository DSL exclusiveContent for this)

So you will have a clear list of libs which are not available outside of jcenter, so you could decide what to do with them (create an issue, get rid of them or republish yourself)

[Aslam Hossin]

Thank you @gildor. Republishing is a bit difficult for nodular libraries cause using a library for simple use case but it's now a big challenge 🙏

[gildor]

Republishing is a bit difficult for nodular libraries

What do you mean?

[gildor]

I don’t want to say that republishing is some extremely easy thing, it probably requires manual post of artifacts to repo, but it also not something very complicated, it’s just a few files in a dir

[Aslam Hossin]

In a sense of doing simple things like compression of media files, have to publish a library. I used library avoid doing stuff of compression related things but now doing my own thing is relatively good.

[gildor]

Not sure that I follow 😄