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Recently I started to venture into Android Studio, and one of the projects I'm working on requires a barcode reader, and a great solution I found was the ZXing library.

However, the following doubts arose:

To use this library I used the following commands:

   compile 'com.google.zxing:core:3.2.1'
   compile 'com.journeyapps:zxing-android-embedded:3.2.0@aar'

If the owner removes this library, will the next build of the application no longer have this library?

If not, would you have any way to work with it local / offline?

Xcoder
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A compile directive works because the library is published in the maven central repo.

If you really want to secure that library, you would need to vendor it:

  • clone it in your own project
  • declare it as a module

Or: use the jitpack project, which allows you to reference a fork (your own GitHub copy) of the project in a compile directive.

See more at "How to compile forked library in Gradle?".

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