Publishing own libary to mavenCentral from private repository

Question

I have created an Android library for customer, which is stored in private repository (it can be Github or Bitbucket, does not matter). And now this library should be published to mavenCentral for future use by other programmers. And there are two important requirements:

1. Code of library must be in private repository, other programmers, which will use it, will not be able to download repo.
2. Code of library must be obfuscated, programmers, which will use it, will be able to use methods, but will NOT be able to see code of that methods.
3. Programmers will be able to implement library via gradle, as usual

How can I make this? I found many tutorials for mavenCentral, but all of them was only for public repos.

Answer 1

I am kind of facing some similar issue. However, I liked the idea in this link below:

https://medium.com/student-beans/publishing-a-library-as-a-aar-package-55ed725fa638

Create .aar file -> Create new repo -> Upload your .aar file to Github directly -> Create release version -> Distribute using Jitpack.

This way people can directly use your library without having to see the implementation.

Suggestion: If you want it to be more secure, I would recommend creating a separate account for AAR distribution. Make the AAR repo private and distribute Github token to your partner companies only. (This is just a suggestion and I have not yet tested it)

Update: Please follow the below tutorial as the above reference is not fully working.

https://www.talentica.com/blogs/publish-your-android-library-on-jitpack-for-better-reachability/

Take the jitpack.yml file from the first article and add it to your GitHub project along with the 3 generated files from the above tutorial.