Simplify our dependency creation by using plugin

Parse/build.gradle

@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ bintray {
     user = System.getenv('BINTRAY_USER')
     key = System.getenv('BINTRAY_API_KEY')
 
-    publications = ["MyPublication"]
+    publications = ["mavenAar"]
 
     publish = true
     pkg {
@@ -244,35 +244,20 @@ bintray {
 }
 
 // Create the publication with the pom configuration:
-apply plugin: 'maven-publish'
+apply plugin: 'digital.wup.android-maven-publish'
+
 publishing {
     publications {
-        MyPublication(MavenPublication) {
+        mavenAar(MavenPublication) {
+            from components.android
             groupId group
             // We have to specify it here because otherwise Bintray's plugin will assume the artifact's name is Parse
             artifactId artifact
             artifacts = [androidSourcesJar, javadocJarRelease, bundleRelease]
             version version
-            pom.withXml {
-                def root = asNode()
-                root.appendNode('description', projDescription)
-                root.appendNode('name', projName)
-                root.appendNode('url', gitLink)
-                root.children().last() + pomConfig
-
-                // maven-publish workaround to include dependencies
-                def dependenciesNode = asNode().appendNode('dependencies')
-
-                //Iterate over the compile dependencies (we don't want the test ones), adding a <dependency> node for each
-                configurations.implementation.allDependencies.each {
-                    def dependencyNode = dependenciesNode.appendNode('dependency')
-                    dependencyNode.appendNode('groupId', it.group)
-                    dependencyNode.appendNode('artifactId', it.name)
-                    dependencyNode.appendNode('version', it.version)
-                }
-
-            }
+
         }
+
     }
 }
 
@@ -292,7 +277,7 @@ artifactory {
         }
         defaults {
             publishArtifacts = true
-            publications('MyPublication')
+            publications('mavenAar')
         }
     }
 }

build.gradle

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ plugins {
     id "com.jfrog.artifactory" version "4.4.18"
     id "com.jfrog.bintray" version "1.7.3"
     id 'com.github.ben-manes.versions' version '0.17.0'
+    id 'digital.wup.android-maven-publish' version '3.2.0' // tweak depending on Gradle version
 }
 
 allprojects {

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -3,4 +3,6 @@ distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
+# Make sure to update the version of android-maven-publish if you bump the Gradle version
+# See: https://github.com/wupdigital/android-maven-publish
 distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.4-all.zip