[habosa]

+100

I've been doing Android development (incl. publishing libraries) since 2010 and the Android community is way behind every other community in the tools available for library publishers. iOS has Cocoapods and SPM, Web has NPM (and Yarn), Flutter has pub, etc.

JCenter/Bintray made it possible for an independent dev to figure out how to share their utilities with others but even then it was too hard. Everyone has their own hacked together Gradle publishing script to assemble the right AARs, JARs, POMs, etc.

But the Android community has a really bad habit of accepting things that are too hard because simplicity is for Bad Programmers. So we will accept this, and 10 years from now we'll continue to be in a place where Google and Square publish 90% of the good Android libraries and the community is still hugely underdeveloped.