Intellij maven dependency prefer local code

Question

i'm working on a project in which i have an android application project which has pom dependencies on other projects something like this:

<dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>some.project/groupId>
            <artifactId>some.artifact<artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0</version>
            <type>apklib</type>
        </dependency>
</dependencies>

while developing i always want Intellij to use the local source code from the some.project library i have in the project.
the problem is it will pull version 1.0.0 from the server and use that.
i tried using LATEST as version, this works fine as long as my some.project library version is updated to the latest version on the server.
since we have automated builds that will increment the version for some.project when changes are made i will have a scenario in which my source says 1.0.0 but the server has 1.0.1 and again intellij will pull the server apklib

Any suggestions how to achieve this? if i could use a dev profile to somehow define this for development only and a prod profile to use exact version numbers (which it should) that will be amazing.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can add a module dependency in IntelliJ: File->Project Settings->Modules click on the module -> click Dependencies tab and then click the green '+' sign and choose '3. Module dependency'.. add the module on which you want to depend locally and click the blue arrows to bring the module above the Maven dependencies.