What is included in JCenter repository in Gradle?

Xelian picture Xelian · Aug 5, 2014 · Viewed 89.2k times · Source

From Gradle 1.7 there is new Public repository JCenter.

repositories {  
   jcenter()  
}

So I want to ask if all jars from Maven Central are parts of this repo? And if not from what is JCenter repo consists of? And is JCenter more reliable from Maven Central as downtime?

Answer

Rene Groeschke picture Rene Groeschke · Aug 5, 2014

jcenter() is similar to mavenCentral(). Have a look at https://bintray.com/bintray/jcenter for more details. The jCenter guys claim that they have a better performance than Maven Central.