Android - dependency download - 500 internal error issue - jcenter.bintray.com
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jcenter.bintray.com has issues right now, similar to the previous ones (see e.g. http://status.bintray.com/incidents/v4ghm1s1xrp9).
The error looks like:
```
> Could not resolve org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.1.1.
> Could not get resource 'https://jcenter.bintray.com/org/apache/httpcomponents/httpclient/4.1.1/httpclient-4.1.1.pom'.
> Could not GET 'https://jcenter.bintray.com/org/apache/httpcomponents/httpclient/4.1.1/httpclient-4.1.1.pom'. Received status code 500 from server: Internal Server Error
```
A simple and reliable mitigation can be to configure a Bitrise Build Cache for your Android project, so that your dependencies are cached and doesn't have to be downloaded from bintray. You can find a guide for the setup at: https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/how-to-cache-gradle-dependencies/194
The error looks like:
```
> Could not resolve org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.1.1.
> Could not get resource 'https://jcenter.bintray.com/org/apache/httpcomponents/httpclient/4.1.1/httpclient-4.1.1.pom'.
> Could not GET 'https://jcenter.bintray.com/org/apache/httpcomponents/httpclient/4.1.1/httpclient-4.1.1.pom'. Received status code 500 from server: Internal Server Error
```
A simple and reliable mitigation can be to configure a Bitrise Build Cache for your Android project, so that your dependencies are cached and doesn't have to be downloaded from bintray. You can find a guide for the setup at: https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/how-to-cache-gradle-dependencies/194