To do this, click the pencil-looking button next to the user you’ve just created. Once you create the user, you’ll need to edit the user so that it can manage your repositories. This is the user that gradle will use to publish artifacts to the repo, so remember the username and password you enter here for later. From here, its pretty easy to create a user. After you create an admin user, you should be automatically logged in.Īt this point, you can click the ‘Manage’ menu item in the side menu (its the first menu item underneath the section heading with the title ‘Users’). First, create an admin user by clicking the ‘Create admin’ button at the top right corner of the screen. Next, start archiva by running:Īfter archiva finishes loading (which could be a while), you can load up the interface by pointing your browser to localhost:8080.Īt this point, you need to create 2 users. I’ll explain how to setup Archiva, but you could easily use other maven repo solutions. The first thing you need to ‘build apps smarter’ is a maven repository.

I’ve already discussed those challenges, so I won’t do so again here. If you’re building an app that uses 3+ libraries, this can be pretty painful.Įven with Android Studio, it can be challenging to create a workable multi-project setup. This isn’t terrible, but whenever someone else wants to build your app, they need to:Īdd those library projects as dependencies for the app project.

With Eclipse, the workflow for creating a multi-project setup went something like this:Īdd library projects as a dependencies for the app project. In this post, I will say a little bit about why dependency management can be painful and I will explain how to use archiva and gradle to make dependency management a breeze. Once projects are setup to produce and consume maven artifacts, building an app with many dependencies becomes much more manageable. Now that we have gradle, there’s a better way to build android apps: we can configure our library projects to publish maven artifacts to a maven repository and we can configure our app projects to consume those artifacts. Build Apps Smarter With Archiva and Gradleĭependency management in both Eclipse and Android Studio can be a serious pain.

Android gradle repositories