I'm a bit confused with gradle here. Why does

repositories {
        maven {
            name "Local"
            url uri("/Users/sujit.poudel/dev/android/TestProj1/build/")
        }
}

can resolve all the artifacts in the build as maven artifacts, but not:

repositories {
        maven {
            name "Local"
            url uri("$projectDir/build/")
        }
}

does not in android project? I checked the value of

$projectDir

, and it is:

/Users/sujit.poudel/dev/android/TestProj1

. Any pointer here please?

not sure why it would be wrong, but perhaps the value is relative or something. I would prefer using

file("build").toUri()

or similar