Gradle task for generating Maven's POM file for Android AAR

build.gradle

task createPom {
    apply plugin: 'maven'
    description "Generates pom.xml"
    pom {
        project {
            groupId 'com.example'
            artifactId 'example'
            version '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
            packaging 'aar'
        }
    }.withXml {
        def dependenciesNode = asNode().appendNode('dependencies')

        configurations.compile.allDependencies.each { dependency ->
            def dependencyNode = dependenciesNode.appendNode('dependency')
            dependencyNode.appendNode('groupId', dependency.group)
            dependencyNode.appendNode('artifactId', dependency.name)
            dependencyNode.appendNode('version', dependency.version)
        }
    }.writeTo("$buildDir/pom.xml")
}