[Android] gradle: use base plugin to set the archive name

[Steve Lhomme]

vlc-android | branch: master | Steve Lhomme <robux4 at ycbcr.xyz> | Thu Jun 11 13:22:36 2026 +0200| [27ce3a304a1ef6eb9af141bee8d46cfcf21ddf7d] | committer: Nicolas Pomepuy

gradle: use base plugin to set the archive name

See https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/base_plugin.html#sec:base_plugin_extension

It doesn't rely on variants outputFileName which will be removed in the future.

> https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-android/commit/27ce3a304a1ef6eb9af141bee8d46cfcf21ddf7d
---

 application/remote-access-client/build.gradle | 17 ++++++-----------
 buildsystem/maven/deploy-to-mavencentral.sh   |  6 +++---
 medialibrary/build.gradle                     | 21 +++++++++------------
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/application/remote-access-client/build.gradle b/application/remote-access-client/build.gradle
index 33239c4170..3e52d3af56 100644
--- a/application/remote-access-client/build.gradle
+++ b/application/remote-access-client/build.gradle
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 plugins {
     id 'com.android.library'
-    id 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.android'
+    id 'base'
     id 'com.vanniktech.maven.publish'
 }
 
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ ext {
     library_version = "$rootProject.ext.remoteAccessVersion"
 }
 
+base {
+    //Custom APK name
+    archivesName = "vlc-android-remote-access-${library_version}"
+}
+
 def remoteclientSourceDir = "$projectDir/remoteaccess"
 File remoteAccessPackage = file("$remoteclientSourceDir/package.json")
 def remoteAccessRevision = remoteAccessPackage.exists() ? providers.exec {
@@ -73,16 +78,6 @@ android {
         assets.srcDirs = ['assets']
     }
 
-    // Make per-variant version code
-    libraryVariants.all { variant ->
-        //Custom APK name
-        variant.outputs.each { output ->
-            if (output.outputFileName != null && output.outputFileName.endsWith('.aar')) {
-                output.outputFileName = "vlc-android-remote-access-${library_version}.aar"
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
     buildFeatures {
         resValues = true
     }
diff --git a/buildsystem/maven/deploy-to-mavencentral.sh b/buildsystem/maven/deploy-to-mavencentral.sh
index a126f100ae..d6477ea6ea 100755
--- a/buildsystem/maven/deploy-to-mavencentral.sh
+++ b/buildsystem/maven/deploy-to-mavencentral.sh
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ else
   mvn gpg:sign-and-deploy-file \
     --settings settings.xml \
     -DpomFile=$BASE_DIR/libvlc-all-$LIBVLC_VERSION.pom \
-    -Dfile=$BASE_DIR/libvlc-all-$LIBVLC_VERSION.aar \
+    -Dfile=$BASE_DIR/libvlc-all-$LIBVLC_VERSION-release.aar \
     -Dsources=$BASE_DIR/libvlc-all-$LIBVLC_VERSION-sources.jar \
     -Djavadoc=$BASE_DIR/libvlc-all-$LIBVLC_VERSION-javadoc.jar \
     -Durl="https://ossrh-staging-api.central.sonatype.com/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/" \
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ else
   mvn gpg:sign-and-deploy-file \
     --settings settings.xml \
     -DpomFile=$BASE_DIR/medialibrary-all-$MEDIALIB_VERSION.pom \
-    -Dfile=$BASE_DIR/medialibrary-all-$MEDIALIB_VERSION.aar \
+    -Dfile=$BASE_DIR/medialibrary-all-$MEDIALIB_VERSION-release.aar \
     -Dsources=$BASE_DIR/medialibrary-all-$MEDIALIB_VERSION-sources.jar \
     -Djavadoc=$BASE_DIR/medialibrary-all-$MEDIALIB_VERSION-javadoc.jar \
     -Durl="https://ossrh-staging-api.central.sonatype.com/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/" \
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ else
   mvn gpg:sign-and-deploy-file \
     --settings settings.xml \
     -DpomFile=$BASE_DIR/remote-access-$REMOTE_ACCESS_VERSION.pom \
-    -Dfile=$BASE_DIR/remote-access-$REMOTE_ACCESS_VERSION.aar \
+    -Dfile=$BASE_DIR/remote-access-$REMOTE_ACCESS_VERSION-release.aar \
     -Dsources=$BASE_DIR/remote-access-$REMOTE_ACCESS_VERSION-sources.jar \
     -Djavadoc=$BASE_DIR/remote-access-$REMOTE_ACCESS_VERSION-javadoc.jar \
     -Durl="https://ossrh-staging-api.central.sonatype.com/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/" \
diff --git a/medialibrary/build.gradle b/medialibrary/build.gradle
index d24e40d087..cb378fec54 100644
--- a/medialibrary/build.gradle
+++ b/medialibrary/build.gradle
@@ -20,13 +20,20 @@
  *  Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301, USA.
  *  ***************************************************************************
  */
-apply plugin: 'com.android.library'
-apply plugin: "com.vanniktech.maven.publish"
+plugins {
+    id 'com.android.library'
+    id 'base'
+    id 'com.vanniktech.maven.publish'
+}
 
 def abi = project.hasProperty('vlcLibVariant') ? project.getProperty('vlcLibVariant') : 'all'
 ext {
     library_version = "$rootProject.ext.medialibraryVersion"
 }
+base {
+    //Custom APK name
+    archivesName = "medialibrary-${abi}-${library_version}"
+}
 android {
     namespace = 'org.videolan.medialibrary'
     compileOptions {
@@ -78,16 +85,6 @@ android {
         renderScript = true
         aidl = true
     }
-
-    // Make per-variant version code
-    libraryVariants.all { variant ->
-        //Custom APK name
-        variant.outputs.each { output ->
-            if (output.outputFileName != null && output.outputFileName.endsWith('.aar')) {
-                output.outputFileName = "medialibrary-${abi}-${library_version}.aar"
-            }
-        }
-    }
 }
 
 clean {