Trouble Publishing Android Studio Library on jCenter with Bintray

Question

I'm following this tutorial to publish an example Android Studio library on Jcenter:

http://crushingcode.co/publish-your-android-library-via-jcenter/

It seems very clear. I've created my GitHub repository with this library at this link:

https://github.com/alessandroargentieri/mylibview

I've also Signed in to Bintray.com, and created a new repository which must contain my library (as explained in the tutorial above).

To publish a repository on Bintray I must create an organisation, then you create the repository. So these are my data:

Bintray username: alessandroargentieri
organisation: alexmawashi
repository: https://bintray.com/alexmawashi/my_android_repository

then, in Android Studio, in the gradle file of my library module, I've this data:

apply plugin: 'com.android.library'

ext {
    bintrayRepo = 'my_android_repository'       //maven
    bintrayName = 'mylibview'   // Has to be same as your library module name

    publishedGroupId = 'mawashi.alex.mylittlelibrary'
    libraryName = 'MyLibView'
    artifact = 'mylibview'     // Has to be same as your library module name

    libraryDescription = 'Android Library to use a custom view'

    // Your github repo link
    siteUrl = 'https://github.com/alessandroargentieri/mylibview'
    gitUrl = 'https://github.com/alessandroargentieri/mylibview.git'
    githubRepository= 'alessandroargentieri/mylibview'

    libraryVersion = '1.0'

    developerId = 'alexmawashi'
    developerName = 'Alessandro Argentieri'
    developerEmail = 'alexmawashi87@gmail.com'

    licenseName = 'The Apache Software License, Version 2.0'
    licenseUrl = 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt'
    allLicenses = ["Apache-2.0"]
}
...
...
apply from: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nisrulz/JCenter/master/installv1.gradle'
apply from: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nisrulz/JCenter/master/bintrayv1.gradle'

When I use the terminal and write: gradlew clean build install bintrayUpload --stacktrace

After a few minutes, I get this error:

 What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':mylittlelibrary:bintrayUpload'.
> Could not create package 'alessandroargentieri/my_android_repository/mylibview': HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found [message:Repo 'my_android_repository' was not found]

What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

Answer 1

There also might be a problem here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nisrulz/JCenter/master/bintrayv1.gradle

If your repo belong to your organisation then you are going to need the userOrg parameter set.

See https://github.com/bintray/gradle-bintray-plugin#step-4-add-your-bintray-package-information-to-the-bintray-closure step 4

Also see: HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized when uploading binary on bintray

Answer 2

For this to work properly, your gradle.properties file needs to have a bintray.user and a bintray.apikey (which is your bintray API key) configured (see the include in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nisrulz/JCenter/master/bintrayv1.gradle )