GradleCopy
GradleCopy
is a Qt
framework based tool to copy Gradle caches to Android local "m2repository" directory which saves me from redownloading them (again and again).
Usage Example
- First, ensure you have
ANDROID_HOME
environment-variable, pointing to your Android-SDK directory. - Create the
init.gradle
file in your%UserProfile%/.gradle
directory, and open it (in your prefered text-editor). - Then, simply copy below and paste in
init.gradle
file (replacing any previous content):
def offlineRepoDir = "${System.getenv("ANDROID_HOME")}\\extras\\m2repository"
def repositoryClosure = {
maven { url uri(offlineRepoDir) }
// google()
// mavenCentral()
}
rootProject {
buildscript {
ext.machineOfflineRepoDir = offlineRepoDir
}
allprojects {
buildscript {
repositories(repositoryClosure)
}
repositories(repositoryClosure)
}
}
settingsEvaluated { settings ->
settings.pluginManagement {
buildscript {
repositories(repositoryClosure)
}
repositories(repositoryClosure)
}
}
-
Download
GradleCopy
if you didn't already, and launch it. -
Uncheck the
Test Run
option (to skip listing what will be done). -
At last, click the
Copy
button and done! -
But sometimes Gradle only downloads
.pom
files, and fails to fetch related.jar
files:-
To fix that: Gradle will not even try to download related
.jar
files (as long as your offline repo contains related.pom
file). -
First, click the "
Generate Missing Jar List
" option from theCopy
button's dropdown menu. -
In the resulted window, click the "
Download
" button (which downloads what is missing, instead of relaying solely on Gradle). -
Then in the same window, click "
Disable incomplete lib
" option from theDownload
button's dropdown menu (which renames any.pom
file with no.jar
file beside it, inside your offlinem2repository
directory only). -
Previous step (the rename) can be undone by clicking "
Restore incomplete lib
" option (from the same menu).
Note that because some older packages are no longer available for download, both of said downloading and renaming should be done.
-
Platform: broken Windows
, but should also work for MacOS
and Linux
as well (once compiled).
Note:
All codes are based and meant to be Apache 2.0
License but it does use the Qt4
framework under the LGPL
or GPL
license, so if you rewrite this using another framework it is pure Apache 2.0
License