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Technical articles about AAR.
Creating an Android library module is the easy click. Making its AAR safe for another app requires a deliberate API, resource and manifest hygiene, consumer shrinker rules, compatibility metadata, tests, and a distribution path that preserves dependencies.
A library module can depend on another module with one Gradle project dependency. The important design choice is whether the dependency remains an implementation detail or becomes part of your public API—and how that relationship survives publication.
A precompiled AAR can be linked directly from an app module, but the file carries no Maven dependency metadata. Here is the clean Gradle setup, plus the checks that prevent missing classes, resource conflicts, native ABI surprises, and release-only failures.