Define things in the init.gradle

[Chris_Dore (Chris Doré)]

Try wrapping your code in allprojects {}

Maven-publish publishing repository in init.gradle?

Init scripts do not execute against a Project in the same way that a build script does, instead it delegates to a Gradle instance. https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/init_scripts.html Try wrapping your code with allprojects: allprojects { // your code }