PrivateMavenCenter.md

MavenPrivate

Instruction of how to create a private maven center.

Explanation:

For big projects, library dependecies are always making developers head big. Using Maven and jCenter are good idea, but it needs a period of time to publish your code. Here I will introduce how to make your private maven. It is very useful for group work, you can set up this in a public server or company's server. The sample instruction I have shown is setting on my laptop only. In total it has 4 big steps, so don't worry about it, let's see how it works.

Content

• Step 1 : Install Nexus
• Step 2 : Create Repository
• Step 3 : Upload Library
• Step 4 : Use Library

Step 1: Install Nexus

1. install Nexus from here.

2. unzip and goto file bin using following command.

   cd nexus-3.3.1-01/bin/
   

3. run command line:

   ./nexus start
   

4. In browser, type in

   127.0.01:8081
   

   Then you will see the dash board of Nexus

   

Step 2: Create Repository

1. choose hosted repository, maven2, fill in repository id, name, then save.

Step 3: Upload library

In this example

• My repo url is http://127.0.0.1:8081/repository/paulunimelb/

• Nexus userName is admin

• Nexus password is admin123

• The group I want is com.unimelb.itime

• The artifactId I want is closablebindingview

• The version I want is 1.0.0

In android 'build.gradle' file, add following:

apply plugin: 'maven'
apply plugin: 'signing'
...
signing {
    required { gradle.taskGraph.hasTask("uploadArchives") }
    sign configurations.archives
}

uploadArchives {
    configuration = configurations.archives

    repositories.mavenDeployer {
        beforeDeployment { MavenDeployment deployment -> signing.signPom(deployment) }

        repository(url: 'http://127.0.0.1:8081/repository/paulunimelb/') {
            authentication(userName: 'admin', password: 'admin123')
        }

        pom.project {
            version '1.0.0'
            artifactId 'closabledatabindingview'
            groupId 'com.unimelb.itime'
            packaging 'aar'
            url 'http://127.0.0.1:8081/repository/paulunimelb/'
            description 'dependences lib'
        }
    }
}

Now run

./gradlew tasks

you should see

Upload tasks
------------
uploadArchives - Uploads all artifacts belonging to configuration ':closabledatabindingview:archives'

Next run

./gradlew uploadArchives

If no error, your code has been successfully upload in library.

Step 4: Use library

Because we don't use maven center, we have to provide our own url, add the following in build.gradle

allprojects {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        mavenCentral()
        maven{
            url 'http://127.0.0.1:8081/repository/paulunimelb/'
        }
    }
}

Add following dependency:

dependencies{
    compile 'com.unimelb.itime:closabledatabindingview:1.0.0'
}