Hi there, has anyone tried to create a KMM module and publish it as a native Android library on mave...

# multiplatform

[ptsiogas]

Hi there, has anyone tried to create a KMM module and publish it as a native Android library on maven?
My understanding is that this is not possible because of the transitive dependencies that may exists in KMM module.
I would like to hear your thoughts.

[Paul Woitaschek]

It's a pure aar if you publish

[Big Chungus]

Sure it's possible. Here's a template for you github.com/mpetuska/template-kmp-library

[ptsiogas]

@Big Chungus thanks I will check.

[ptsiogas]

Have you tested on a native Android application as a maven dependency?

[Paul Woitaschek]

It's really the standard. There is nothing else than native, its really just jvm bytecode

[Paul Woitaschek]

As you are probably using coroutines that's already a multiplatform lib you are already consuming as a jar

[ptsiogas]

Let me be more specific. With the setup below:

project.afterEvaluate {
    publishing {
        publications {

            localLibrary(MavenPublication) {
                groupId LIB_GROUP_ID
                artifactId LIB_ARTIFACT_ID
                version '1.0.0-beta'
                artifact(sourceJar)
                artifact (bundleReleaseAar)

                //generate pom nodes for dependencies
                pom.withXml {
                    def dependenciesNode = asNode().appendNode('dependencies')
                    configurations.compile.allDependencies.each { dependency ->
                        def dependencyNode = dependenciesNode.appendNode('dependency')
                        dependencyNode.appendNode('groupId', dependency.group)
                        dependencyNode.appendNode('artifactId', dependency.name)
                        dependencyNode.appendNode('version', dependency.version)
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

the publishLocalLibraryPublicationToMavenLocal gradle finishes with success but the pom file does not contain any depedencies.

[ptsiogas]

update: changing the

configurations.compile.allDependencies

to

configurations.implementation.allDependencies

seems to add the androidMain depedencies but not the commonMain

[ptsiogas]

update2: changing to

configurations.releaseRuntimePublication.allDependencies

seems to work just fine and it adds all dependencies correctly