Document the compileOnly AAR Limitation [78332127]

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Description

mm...@commonsware.com

created issue #1

Apr 21, 2018 12:03AM

According to

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/74428302, compileOnly is not supported for Android library modules/AARs, just for Java library modules/JARs.

Please document this limitation somewhere on

developer.android.com, as I do not see it covered there.

Thanks!

Comments

uc...@google.com <uc...@google.com> Apr 26, 2018 12:49AM

Assigned to sm...@google.com.

[Deleted User] <[Deleted User]> #2May 8, 2018 05:55AM

Hi,

I am facing the same issue. After updating to android studio 3.1.2. I am unable to compile AAR package in my project:

compile(name:'vidai-release', ext:'aar') this statement is giving exception :

Compilation failed; see the compiler error output for details.

org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for task ':app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac'.
at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeActions(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:100)
at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:70)
at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.OutputDirectoryCreatingTaskExecuter.execute(OutputDirectoryCreatingTaskExecuter.java:51)
at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipUpToDateTaskExecuter.execute(SkipUpToDateTaskExecuter.java:62)

wk...@google.com <wk...@google.com> Aug 9, 2018 01:07PM

Reassigned to ad...@google.com.

wk...@google.com <wk...@google.com> #3Feb 12, 2020 04:59PM

Maybe here? https://developer.android.com/studio/build/dependencies

ad...@google.com <ad...@google.com> Mar 16, 2020 05:28AM

Reassigned to ne...@google.com.

ne...@google.com <ne...@google.com> Mar 30, 2021 07:52PM

Status: New

am...@google.com <am...@google.com> #4Sep 8, 2021 05:17PM

Marked as fixed, reassigned to am...@google.com.

Marking as fixed as we have added a note that you can not use compileOnly with AAR dependencies: https://developer.android.com/studio/build/dependencies.