App cannot be built because of JCenter about harmonic-hn

[SimonHalvdansson]

What is the relation between this and the PR you posted? And what would be a solution? Does removing the jitpack.io thing as you did in the PR make it so the dependency automatically goes to a good source?

[AppearamidGuy]

What is the relation between this and the PR you posted?

Almost none

Does removing the jitpack.io thing as you did in the PR make it so the dependency automatically goes to a good source?

The problem is with JCenter, not with JitPack. Currently build is set up with three repositories that Gradle uses to download libraries (dependencies): Google repo, JCenter, and JitPack. There is one more commonly used repo - Maven Central but Harmonic doesn't use it right now.

Google repo is used only for AGP, androidx libraries and other stuff made by Google, so we can ignore it. Out of remaining three html-textview is published only on JCenter and that's the problem. Some years ago it was fine but since then JCenter was going to shut down and now stays in read-only barely supported mode. So when there's a problem with JCenter, there's no way to download html-textview to build the app.

And what would be a solution?

Approximately from lowest effort to highest:

• Do nothing. Most of the time JCenter works and the app builds fine, but sometimes it does not and it won't get better.
• Ask original developer to republish library to Maven Central or to fix build, so it is available on JitPack.
• Find a fork that is published not on JCenter
• Fork yourself and fix build with JitPack
• Fork yourself and publish to Maven Central
• Copy library's code into the project

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NB: while JitPack is a very convenient option there are some reasons it's not supported out of the box, see gradle/gradle#16310 (comment)

[SimonHalvdansson]

Thank you for the very detailed response! Of the very clearly listed solutions listed (thanks again) I went with copying the code into the project - this way it'll be easier to make and changes which could be useful because the library is not bug free. The project was completely abandoned so there was no hope in getting the original developer to do anything I think.