Can anyone recommend a tool for dependency management? AS doesn't seem to be able to handle dependen...

# android-studio

[kevindmoore]

Can anyone recommend a tool for dependency management? AS doesn't seem to be able to handle dependencies that are defined as variables and the ben-manes plugin is taking over 40 minutes to produce a report

[efemoney]

40 mins is huge on average unless you have an equally huge multiproject build with lots & lots of dependencies.

If thats not the case then you would need optimize your repositories / dependencyUpdates task configuration. For the repositories, add content filtering (so that the build spends the less time trying to resolve dependencies from the wrong repos) and for the dependencyUpdates task, add component filtering via rejectVersionIf

[kevindmoore]

Yeah, I've added some content filtering to my repos. I think part of the problem is that repos are behind a VPN connection. We updated to gradle plugin 7.3.0 and compilesdk to 33 and now things are much slower

[efemoney]

Yeah we have our internal artifactory behind a VPN too and our sync times used to be very long. I added filtering (especially exclusiveContent) and played with the order of repositories

[Javier]

version catalogs + renovate is nice

[kevindmoore]

I assume that the exlusiveContent is similar to

[kevindmoore]

maven {
content { includeGroupByRegex("*") }
}

[efemoney]

Yeah its like content but with the added capability that it blocks other repositories with the same filter with the effect that only the repository which has exclusiveContent setup will be able to serve modules that match the filter. We have this for instance:

[efemoney]

Its a segue from your initial question however, you can also consider what @Javier suggested, renovate is great.

[kevindmoore]

What is renovate?

[efemoney]

https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate

[Mustafa Ozhan]

version catalogs + renovate is nice

agreed i moved dependencyUpdates to renovate too