Know available versions of dependencies in Maven

Question

I want to know what are the available versions, given a maven repository.

The URL is https://maven.google.com OR https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/

Specifically, I want to "explore" the Maven Google Repository, for Android Architecture Components. I know that Android Studio sometimes warns you if a new version is available, but I want to explore for myself. I've tried

• Exploring the repo via web (HTTP / HTTPS), including exploring subpaths like /pom.xml, /.index, /maven-metadata.xml and so on (just guessing)
• Installed Eclipse and NetBeans, and use both integrated maven repositories explorer. No luck, no errors given.
• Exploring Google Docs (outdated), see here and here

Any help is appreciated

Answer 1

Install your own Nexus/Artifactory (if do not already have one), and add the google repositories as proxy repositories. Then you can use the browser interface to make granular searches, including the one you gave in your comment.