aar build with artifactory give Android resource linking failed error

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I've got this error after switching from Jitpack to a self-hosted JFrog artifactory in order to build some android libraries (aar).

I have a baselib@aar containing a custom view provided by a third-party library:

layout.xml:

<com.github.thirdparty.signature.views.CustomView
    android:id="@+id/signature_pad"
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="200dp"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
    app:custom_attribute="@android:color/black" /> <--

implementation 'com.github.thirdparty:signature:1.0.0'

When I import it to my top level library it fail to compile giving me this error Android resource linking failed error, with a link pointing to the layout.xml.

It's seems that the top lib can't resolve the custom_attribute from the CustomView when trying to parse the layout.xml. This I've temporary solved by adding transitive = true to my baselib import

implementation ('com.mycompany.android:baselib:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT@aar'){
   transitive = true
}

Now it compile. But then I have two libraries using this baselib@aar and my final app using those two libraries which give me new error:

Error: Program type already present

The only solution that I found for now is removing transitive = true and import the third-party library containing the CustomView to each libraries using the baselib which I hope could be avoid.

First I'm wondering how Jitpack was compiling the aar in order to work. Any ideas?

aar build with artifactory give Android resource linking failed error

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