As long as the Android functionality that you need is in the bank instead of aar, then you should be able to do this quite easily, since my team has a couple of artifacts like this. For jar artifacts for Android in Maven Central, you just need to add the dependency:
compile 'com.google.android:android:4.1.1.4'
If the functionality is in one of the artifacts installed through the Android SDK Manager, you can simply add the dependency as described above, but you will need to add a local repo for Android to pull the artifacts:
maven { url "file:///${System.env.ANDROID_HOME}/extras/android/m2repository" }
Edit
I also forgot to mention that you will want to tag Android artifacts as indicated so that you do not encounter dependency conflicts. You can do this using the following:
configurations { provided compile.extendsFrom provided } dependencies { provided('com.google.android:android:4.1.1.2') }
Let me know if you need a build.gradle example and I will add it.
Edit 2
The following is an example build.gradle that we use for one of our projects.
apply plugin: 'java' apply plugin: 'maven' apply plugin: 'pmd' apply plugin: 'jacoco' apply plugin: 'findbugs' apply plugin: 'project-report' apply plugin: 'jxr' group = 'com.example' archivesBaseName = 'project-name' version = '1.0.0-SNAPSHOT' sourceCompatibility = 1.7 configurations { provided compile.extendsFrom provided } buildscript { repositories { maven { url 'http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/' } maven { url "http://jcenter.bintray.com" } } dependencies { classpath('net.davidecavestro:gradle-jxr-plugin:0.1') } } repositories { mavenCentral() if (project.hasProperty("mavenLocal")) { maven { url "${System.env.HOME}/.m2/repository" } } maven { url "file:///${System.env.ANDROID_HOME}/extras/android/m2repository" } } dependencies { compile('com.google.code.findbugs:annotations:2.0.2') compile('com.google.code.gson:gson:2.2.4') compile('com.google.guava:guava:15.0') provided('com.google.android:android:4.0.1.2') testCompile('commons-io:commons-io:2.4') testCompile('junit:junit:4.11') testCompile('org.robolectric:robolectric:2.3') testCompile('org.mockito:mockito-all:1.10.8') } test { dependsOn ':assemble' testLogging { showExceptions = true showStackTraces = true exceptionFormat = "full" events "passed", "skipped", "failed" } } javadoc { source = sourceSets.main.allJava classpath = test.classpath } jacocoTestReport { dependsOn test description = "Generate Jacoco coverate reports after running tests." reports { xml.enabled false csv.enabled false html.destination "${buildDir}/reports/jacoco" } } pmd.ignoreFailures = true pmdTest.enabled = false pmdMain.enabled = true pmdMain { reports { xml.enabled = false html.enabled = true } } findbugs.ignoreFailures = true findbugs.excludeFilter = file('./findbugs-exclude-filter.xml') findbugsTest.enabled = false findbugsMain.enabled = true findbugsMain { reports { xml.enabled = false html.enabled = true } } task wrapper(type: Wrapper) { gradleVersion = '2.1' distributionUrl = "http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-${gradleVersion}-all.zip" } task sourcesJar(type: Jar) { classifier = 'sources' from sourceSets.main.allSource } task javadocJar(type: Jar) { classifier = 'javadoc' from "${projectDir}/build/docs" } artifacts { archives sourcesJar archives javadocJar } uploadSite.dependsOn(':check') check.dependsOn('sourcesJar') check.dependsOn('javadoc') check.dependsOn('jacocoTestReport') check.dependsOn('projectReport') check.dependsOn('jxr')