Library dependencies using constants defined in buildSrc seems to be a problem, or have I done something wrong? Normally AS tells me about newer versions of libraries by itself, but I can run the "check for newer libraries" analysis manually too. However, with the strategy above, neither route informs me of newer versions at all! I'm having to manually check for latest releases and change the code myself. Is it just me?

No.

Thanx @Sergio C. Good to know I'm not doing anything wrong (in this respect at least)

Last time I checked, the

buildSrc

module was slowing down the gradle build process unnecessarily so I don't really think it's worth it.