Use cli-tool for android project

[ichistmeinname]

Since we cannot increase our gradle version, I was trying to run the cli-tool instead. However, it didn't find any dependencies when scanning a gradle lock file and I could not figure out which directory to scan when building the project.
The example for Java mentions build/libs, but such a directory is not created for an/my Android project.

Is it just not possible with the cli and only possible using the dedicated plugin?

[jeremylong]

I'm confused - what is stopping you from using the gradle plugin?

[ichistmeinname]

With our gradle version (8.0.1), we get an error regarding jackson-core.

java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.gradle.api.GradleException: Failed to create Jar file /root/.gradle/caches/jars-9/1550be8224c951358979eafa0ab52922/jackson-core-2.17.1.jar

Searching through closed issues, I concluded that an update is gradle is the only/best option here (suggested by you on similar errors). However, we currently cannot update the gradle version due to other constraints in the project (a react-native update would be necessary, which was not planned -- nor budgeted -- in the current release cycle).

Hence, my idea was to use the cli-tool like we do for our npm and sbt code bases.