[CB-9704] Apache Cordova 5 does not support using a custom nexus repository for android builds

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: Ionic
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ajay Gupta
• Created: 25/Sep/15 03:13
• Updated: 26/Sep/22 23:12
• Resolved: 26/Sep/22 23:12

Description

We are using AngularJS and Ionic for writing a mobile application supported both on IOS and Android. When we do "ionic build android --release", it creates a build.gradle file in both platforms/android directory and platforms/android/CordovaLib directory. Both of these files point to mavenCentral() as the repository which tries to download artifacts directly from the maven central repo (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2). We are trying to build our mobile apps as part of a Jenkins build behind company proxy and would like to have gradle reach out to our internal Maven nexus repository instead of reaching out to the central maven repository directly. Our internal Neux repository would then proxy everything to the maven central repository.

We cannot hand edit the build.gradle file as it is a generated file and so any custom changes made to it would be lost in the next build. Cordova 5 supports adding custom extensions using build-extras.gradle file but it does not support overriding repositories.

As a workaround, we have defined a pre-build Cordova hook to search replace mavenCentral() references to our local maven repository before doing an android build. It works but is a unnecessary workaround and not a very clean solution.