{
  "id": 9938970,
  "title": "How to Create a BOM (Bill of Materials) for Your Android Libraries",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/how-to-create-a-bom-bill-of-materials-for-your-android-libraries",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-26T07:37:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/_anubhav/how-to-create-a-bom-bill-of-materials-for-your-android-libraries-2n7l"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Creating a BOM (Bill of Materials) for your Android libraries is a useful process for Android developers. BOMs help ensure that multiple libraries work together harmoniously. To create a BOM, start by understanding Maven coordinates, which are three pieces of information - Group ID, Artifact ID, and Version - that uniquely identify a library in a Maven repository. These coordinates are specified in the Gradle build file as groupId:artifactId:version. A BOM is essentially a POM (Project Object Model) file that only contains version information without any code or resources. When a consumer imports a BOM, it recommends versions for the libraries listed in the BOM, eliminating the need for the consumer to specify versions. However, a BOM does not automatically add dependencies to the consumer's project; those need to be declared explicitly.",
  "summary": "As Android developers, we use BOMs every day. Every time you add platform(libs.firebase.bom) or platform(libs.compose.bom) to your build.gradle.kts , you're importing one. A BOM lets you drop a single version into your build file and get a set of libraries that are guaranteed to work together. No more guessing which version of firebase-analytics is compatible with which version of…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}