Provides a simple API to check for, and download artifacts from Maven Central, Google Maven and Jitpack. It was created as a lightweight alternative to Eclipse aether for Android. But this would work on any OS.

It is recommended to use snapshot builds from jitpack.

For a proper example, checkout Main.kt.

For checking if an artifact exists (in the above mentioned repositories), you can simply do

val groupId = "com.squareup.retrofit2" val artifactId = "retrofit" val version = "2.9.0" val artifact = getArtifact(groupId, artifactId, version) val repository = artifact.repository if (repository != null) { println("Artifact exists in ${ repository.getName() }") } else { println("Cannot find artifact.") }

NOTE: If you only want to download the artifact, you can use the downloadTo method instead. For downloading an artifact with all of its dependencies, you can do

val output = File("<directory to download artifact>") artifact.downloadArtifact(output)