android.tech Shutdown

Five years ago,I rolled out AndroidX Tech (androidx.tech). This site contained an index of all the androidx artifacts frommaven.google.com, including copies of the source code for every version of every artifact.

I have shut it down.

I created it back when CommonsWare was still an operating business, rather than ���a hobby with a logo���.I created it back when Google had very little to offer about the available artifacts and whatthey contained. And I created it back when all the AndroidX artifacts were written in Javaand were targeting Android.

All those things have changed. Google still could do a better job of making the source codefor a specific artifact version available ��� you have to download and unpack a JAR. Butthe code that I wrote to generate that site was failing more and more, not handling Kotlin sourcecorrectly and struggling with Kotlin Multiplatform libraries. If CommonsWare were still inbusiness, perhaps I would invest in trying to address those problems, but there are other thingsthat I would like to do with my time ��� you���ll see some of that shortly.

For those of you who used AndroidX Tech, I apologize for any problems this shutdown causes you.