Unable to deploy android library

[UmairKhalid786]

I'm trying to configure publishing for my Android library, and here's what my current setup looks like:

android {
    publishing {
        singleVariant("release")
    }
}

deployer {
    content {
        androidComponents("release") {
            kotlinSources()
            emptyDocs()
        }
    }
    projectInfo {
        artifactId = appName
        description = "**"
        url = "https://gitlab.com/someurl"
        scm.fromGitlab("username", "projectname")
        license("license")
        developer("", "", "", "")
    }
    centralPortalSpec(appName) {
        auth.user = secret("SONATYPE_USERNAME")
        auth.password = secret("SONATYPE_PASSWORD")
        allowMavenCentralSync = false
    }

    signing {
        key = secret("SIGNING_KEY")
        password = secret("SIGNING_PASSWORD")
    }
}

However, I'm getting the following error during the build:

* What went wrong:
A problem was found with the configuration of task ':MyLibrary:preDeployCentralPortalMyLibrary' (type 'CentralPortalInitializationTask').
  - In plugin 'io.deepmedia.tools.deployer' type 'io.deepmedia.tools.deployer.specs.CentralPortalInitializationTask' property 'service' doesn't have a configured value.
    
    Reason: This property isn't marked as optional and no value has been configured.
    
    Possible solutions:
      1. Assign a value to 'service'.
      2. Mark property 'service' as optional.
    
    For more information, please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/8.9/userguide/validation_problems.html#value_not_set in the Gradle documentation.

I'm pretty sure I'm just missing a small configuration detail here. This exact setup works fine for KMP Android deployment, but fails when used in a pure Android library module.

Any ideas on what I might be missing?

[natario1]

What Gradle version are you using?