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A wast number of the applications in the Android ecosystem use JCenter.
by MrDresden 6y ago
A wast number of the applications in the Android ecosystem use JCenter.
- tadfisher 6y agoMost of them don't need to. The default project template inserts jCenter() in the buildscript, but most artifacts are proxied from Central.
- MrDresden 6y agoNo I mean that a vast number of the libraries in the Android ecosystem are actually hosted on the free jcenter repository. Removing jcenter as a source in the buildscript is a trivial step but doesn't remedy the issue as the dependencies are not all mirrored elsewhere. Complexities of setting up a Maven central account is often listed as the main cause for maintainers simply going for JCenter instead.