How to find dependencies of library?

Question

I want to find dependencies of a library. For example, in my project, I implement android support library.

implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.1.0'

When I execute ./gradlew :app:androidDependencies,

• android.arch.lifecycle:runtime:1.0.0@aar
• android.arch.lifecycle:common:1.0.0@jar
• android.arch.core:common:1.0.0@jar

As you see, after 2017 Google IO, google import Lifecycle and other architecture components.

• How can gradle tool find dependencies of library(in this case, support library)?
• For developer, is there any command to show dependencies of a library ?

Answer 1

Check point 5 of this answer, and use this command or the new Build tab in Android Studio 3.1:

./gradlew -q dependencies app:dependencies

./gradlew -q dependencies app:dependencies --configuration 'productFlavors'DebugCompileClasspath

where 'productFlavors' needs to be replaced by one of your product flavors like production.