How to find transitive dependencies in an Android project

Question

I have the problem. I have undesired dependency, that is not included explicitly in the gradle file. I cannot figure out how to find which dependency transitively includes this one.

How can I find out where does this dependency come from ?

I have tried

gradlew analyze

But fails to compile my project

Thanks

Answer 1

dependencyInsight task can do this for you. Example:

 gradle -q lib:dependencyInsight --dependency groovy --configuration compile

or for Android

gradlew -q app:dependencyInsight --dependency gson --configuration debugCompileClasspath

Will show why dependency containing groovy in its name is included in compile configuration of the lib project. See this doc section for details