Javadoc not shown when using a local Maven repo

Question

I have published an artifact with build.gradle below:

uploadArchives {
    repositories {
        mavenDeployer {
            repository(url: "file://maven")
            pom.groupId = 'com.totvnow'
            pom.artifactId = 'tonedetect-lib'
            pom.version = '0.1.0'
        }
    }
}

task androidJavadocs(type: Javadoc) {
    source = android.sourceSets.main.java.srcDirs
    classpath += project.files(android.getBootClasspath().join(File.pathSeparator))
}

task androidJavadocsJar(type: Jar, dependsOn: androidJavadocs) {
    classifier = 'javadoc'
    from androidJavadocs.destinationDir
}

artifacts {
    archives androidJavadocsJar
}

And I successfully get javadoc files files in repo directory:

tonedetect-lib-0.1.0-javadoc.jar
tonedetect-lib-0.1.0-javadoc.jar.md5
tonedetect-lib-0.1.0-javadoc.jar.sha1

But when I use it in another module's build.gradle:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        maven { url 'somepath\\maven' }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.2.3'
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        maven { url 'somepath\\maven' }
    }
}

and

dependencies {
    compile 'com.totvnow:tonedetect-lib:0.1.0'
}

The Javadoc does not pop up when I use Ctrl-Q on a class in the library. Java codes are fine, and when I click on the class Android Studio gives me the decompiled code without any problem. Also, other dependencies such as support library v4 shows Javadoc correctly.

Does anyone know possible reasons?

Answer 1

I have no Android Studio experience. However after searching on the internet for a bit I found to following things:

1. This seems to be a know issue. I found some very similar issues and questions: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.

2. These things may potentially help to get it working:

   • Applying the idea plugin and configuring it to download the JavaDoc:

     apply plugin: 'idea'
     idea {
         module {
             downloadJavadoc = true
             downloadSources = true
         }
     }
     

   • In Android Studio go to: File -> Other Settings -> Default Settings... -> Maven -> Importing and check the boxes to download the sources and documentation.
   • Use this plugin to overcome the issue that Android Studio does not know how to locate the Gradle sources and javadoc location(?)