Build AAR with dependencies

Question

I want to build .AAR with dependencies inside. I was looking for a lot but nothing works. Topics are so old. I realized that resultant .AAR should have classes.jar inside and there are directories with .class files. But I don't know how to automatize this process in gradle.

Answer 1

We manage to do this using this Mobbeel fat AAR Gradle plugin: https://github.com/Mobbeel/fataar-gradle-plugin

    buildscript {
        repositories {
            //...
            maven {
                url 'https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/'
            }
        }
    }

    //...

    dependencies {
        classpath 'gradle.plugin.com.mobbeel.plugin:mobbeel-fataar:1.2.0'
    }

Mark dependencies with api instead of implementation

    apply plugin: 'com.mobbeel.plugin'

    dependencies {
        api 'org.greenrobot:eventbus:3.0.0'
        //...
    }

    fatAARConfig {
        includeAllInnerDependencies false
    }

This article was helpful: http://wittchen.io/2018/10/02/creating-fat-aar/