Gradle is not adding Dagger 2 generated classes to aar

Question

I am new to stackoverflow so I am sorry if my question is not perfectly explained.

My current project has the next structure

                              core Library
                              |          |
                      Library 1         Library 2
                       |                 |
                    applications        applications

Core Library is a library which contains common functionality for the other 2 libraries.

In this case core Library, Library 1 and 2 use Dependency injection with Dagger 2, and each one of them creates it's own dependency graph. So each one of them has it's own component interface, modules, and Dagger 2 generated classes. Also all of them have @Inject annotations for obtaining their required object instances.

core library uses 2 classes to make the connection with the other libraries. An initializer class which builds the dependency graph and a publisher class which has get methods that return the required object instances.

What I want to accomplish is to make 3 aar files, one for each library. And that Library 1 and 2 use the core Library aar. The applications take the library 1 and 2 from an artifactory repository.

My current problem is that in any of the 3 aar files are the Dagger 2 generated classes. I am not sure why. All the classes are been generated when I build the projects but the compiled classes are not inside the aar file.

I am using:

apt 'com.google.dagger:dagger-compiler:2.5'
compile 'com.google.dagger:dagger:2.5'
provided 'javax.annotation:jsr250-api:1.0'

gradle-2.14.1

This is an example of my publisher:

public class Publisher {
@Inject
ReceiversManager receiversManager;
@Inject
NetworkManager networkManager;
@Inject
HttpRequestManager httpRequestManager;

public ReceiversManager getReceiversManager(){
    return receiversManager;
}

public NetworkManager getNetworkManager() {
    return networkManager;
}

public HttpRequestManager getHttpRequestManager() {
    return httpRequestManager;
}

public Publisher(){
    Initializer.getComponent().inject(this);
}
}

Answer 1

I solved the problem with this script https://github.com/adwiv/android-fat-aar

That script helps to create an aar with dependencies included which can come very handy in many situations.