Gradle only downloads pom from mavenCentral - Android

Question

I have successfully deployed an AAR artifact to mavenCentral using Sonatype's OSS Nexus but when i reference it on another project gradle is only downloading the pom and it's respective ASC file to ~/.gradle/cache.

This is my build.gradle http://pastie.org/private/zaxa13hsd52e4elfpnne4w This is the build.gradle for the library https://github.com/Machinarius/PreferenceFragment-Compat/blob/master/build.gradle

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

The aar.asc packaging is coming from this section in your gradle configuration:

configurations {
  archives {
    extendsFrom configurations.default
  }
}

Remove those lines from your build.gradle file and deploy again. You should see the packaging be aar now.

Answer 2

The value for the POM's packaging element (aar.asc) looks wrong. You should nevertheless be able to fetch the artifact with something like dependencies { compile 'com.github.machinarius:preferencefragment:0.1@aar' }. With this "artifact only" notation, you won't get transitive dependencies, but you can always declare those yourself.