[TODO] Migrate AndroidThemis from Bintray

cossacklabs / themis

Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.

https://www.cossacklabs.com/themis

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[TODO] Migrate AndroidThemis from Bintray #776

Closed vixentael closed 3 years ago

vixentael commented 3 years ago

JFrog shuts down Bintray service, where we host android Themis: https://bintray.com/cossacklabs/maven/themis

They suggest migrating to Maven Central.

We should investigate what changes are required in src/wrappers/themis/android/build.gradle and potentially other android/Java related files to fix distribution pipeline.

List of useful links:

Potentially helpful twitter-thread from Brian Sonatype: https://twitter.com/Brian_Fox/status/1357414525377642496
Maven Central Requirements https://central.sonatype.org/pages/requirements.html
@asm0dey has kindly shared their build.gradle that uploads their lib to Maven Central for inspiration purposes https://github.com/asm0dey/staks/blob/main/build.gradle
Manual on manually moving libs from JCenter to Maven Central https://www.marcogomiero.com/posts/2021/move-libray-jcenter-to-maven/

ilammy commented 3 years ago

Android Themis has been republished to Maven Central manually. It should be available under the same name.

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.cossacklabs.com:themis:0.13.1'
}

Currently only the latest version 0.13.1 is available, as it is the first one containing all the required metadata to be allowed into the Maven Central repo.

Things still to be done:

republish old versions 0.10.0 through 0.13.0 if possible
automate publishing process for future versions
update CI pipelines to test against Maven Central

vixentael commented 3 years ago

Thank you, @ilammy!

Themis is available here https://search.maven.org/artifact/com.cossacklabs.com/themis/0.13.1/aar

Things still to be done (cont):

[x] test and update examples -> https://github.com/cossacklabs/themis-java-examples/pull/9
[x] update installation docs -> https://github.com/cossacklabs/product-docs/pull/38#pullrequestreview-600875289

vixentael commented 3 years ago

looks like @ilammy has updated gradle, docs, examples and produced a repeatable release manual. I suggest to close this issue, as other things (automation and moving old Themis libs to MC) are more "enhancements" than blockers.