Clean way to publish Android AAR library with external dependencies with maven

I am creating an Android library that I am trying to publish to the Nexus Maven repository. What puzzles me is that there seems to be no clean way to publish my project via gradle using a plugin maven-publish

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I found several answers that don't really satisfy me:

This plugin works fine and is currently not supported.

Having changed the generated POM in my build.gradle works, I just don't feel like this is the way it should be done - it seems like the problem should be solved in every android library build.gradle

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Google even mentions the plugin maven-publish

in their documentation , but doesn't really show you how to use it.

Please tell me what I am missing: is the problem less trivial than I think? I am just trying to post an AAR with a pom stating this dependency, I am trying to build the most standard and standard solution I can.

Thanks in advance.