Can’t resolve me.dm7.barcodescanner:zxing:1.9.13

[mvglasow]

I just tried to build the app, but it failed with:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Could not determine the dependencies of task ':app:lintVitalRelease'.
> Could not resolve all artifacts for configuration ':app:debugCompileClasspath'.
   > Could not find me.dm7.barcodescanner:zxing:1.9.13.
     Required by:
         project :app

Doing some research, I was able to resolve it by editing app/build.gradle. Apparently JCenter is deprecated and in read-only mode, so I changed the repositories stanza to:

repositories {
    google()
    mavenCentral() 
}

The latest version on Maven Central seems to be 1.9.8 (source), so update the version for the dependency.

With these changes I got the app to build and a quick test was successful.

I didn’t do a lot of research, maybe someone comes up with a way to get the latest version of the dependency. If not, then I would suggest the above as a fix.

[raphaelm]

Hm yeah, that's due to the death of jCenter probably. Ideally, we'd swap out the unmaintained dependency alltogether, but I'm currently not very actively maintaining this app

[mvglasow]

currently not very actively maintaining this app

Been there, done that :-) quickest wins, in order of quickness, would probably be:

1. Grab me.dm7.barcodescanner:xzing:1.9.8 from Google or Maven Central, as indicated above
2. Find a way to get 1.9.13 back (if there is one – the project is no longer maintained either)
3. Given that me.dm7.barcodescanner:zxing is no longer maintained, include it as a submodule
4. No longer a quick win: rewrite the app to use a still-maintained alternative to me.dm7.barcodescanner:zxing, the project page mentions some

Too bad the app is no longer maintained, as there don’t seem to be any replacements (at least, no FOSS ones).