cannot build the app from source

[IzzySoft]

Hi Michele, I've just tried to build the app from the latest tag, but the build failed, missing a component:

> Task :app:dataBindingMergeDependencyArtifactsRelease FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:dataBindingMergeDependencyArtifactsRelease'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':app:releaseCompileClasspath'.
   > Could not find com.theartofdev.edmodo:android-image-cropper:2.8.0.
     Required by:
         project :app

Any idea what might be wrong there?

I couldn't find any build instructions, so I had to make some assumptions: I've used OpenJDK 17 on Debian bookwork, with gradle 8.10, just running gradle assembleRelease. Ho do you build the app? I assume you have that library cached somewhere, as according to SO, v2.8.0 hasn't been available for at least 2 years. The SO post recommends some alternatives you might wish to look at, e.g.

implementation 'com.vanniktech:android-image-cropper:4.6.0'

(see this post, which is just 3 months old).