diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 2c7db0f156ce6176e3fd2b8a445f8d826eca6b43..ee0b9bb720b2fb92e5395710f78fbb7568b30e37 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 stages:
   - update-from-upstream
   - build-sdk
+  - publish 
 
 include:
   - project: 'e/priv/os/build'
@@ -18,4 +19,11 @@ build-sdk:
   - ./buildSdk.sh
   artifacts:
     paths:
-    - e-ui-sdk.jar
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+    - e-ui-sdk.jar
+
+publish:
+  only:
+    - v1-pie
+  stage: publish
+  script: 
+    - 'gradle publish'
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..549464ee3c6bb29a1b9af891271aabb2a5bc7662
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+plugins {
+    id 'maven-publish'
+}
+
+publishing {
+    publications {
+        maven(MavenPublication) {
+            groupId = 'foundation.e'
+            artifactId = 'e-ui-sdk'
+            version = '1.0-pie'
+            artifact ("e-ui-sdk.jar")
+            pom {
+                name = '/e/ UI SDK Library'
+                description = 'A design library to be used specifically for /e/ OS to have common themes across the apps.'
+                url = 'https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/android_lineage-sdk'
+                licenses {
+                    license {
+                        name = 'The Apache License, Version 2.0'
+                        url = 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt'
+                    }
+                }
+                developers {
+                    developer {
+                        id = 'amitkumar'
+                        name = 'Amit Kumar'
+                        email = 'amitkma@e.email'
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    repositories {
+        maven {
+            url "https://gitlab.e.foundation/api/v4/projects/185/packages/maven"
+            name "GitLab"
+            credentials(HttpHeaderCredentials) {
+                name = 'Job-Token'
+                value = System.getenv("CI_JOB_TOKEN")
+            }
+            authentication {
+                header(HttpHeaderAuthentication)
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/buildSdk.sh b/buildSdk.sh
index ae2640696db1bbf4d750efa996677b98aa15f543..d7f6fb3df6205d823cdcd6dca038e3585ce0f061 100755
--- a/buildSdk.sh
+++ b/buildSdk.sh
@@ -8,10 +8,27 @@ if [[ -z "${ANDROID_HOME}" ]]; then
 	echo "{ANDROID_HOME} path variable is not set. Set it to point Android SDK."
 	exit 1
 else
-	build_tools_dir=$ANDROID_HOME/build-tools/29.0.2/
+	build_tools_dir=$ANDROID_HOME/build-tools/
+	declare -a build_tools
+	for f in $build_tools_dir*;
+	do
+		if [ -d "$f" ]; then
+			build_tools+=($(basename $f))
+    	fi
+	done
+	if [ ${#build_tools[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
+		echo "No build-tools found at $build_tools_dir. Make sure you've atleast one build tools downloaded."
+		exit 1
+	else 
+		sorted_build_tools=($(for l in ${build_tools[@]}; do echo $l; done | sort))
+		echo "Available build-tools are ${sorted_build_tools[@]}"
+		latest_build_tool=${sorted_build_tools[${#sorted_build_tools[@]}-1]}
+		echo "Using latest build tool available: $latest_build_tool"
+	fi
 fi
 
-aapt2="${build_tools_dir}/aapt2"
+latest_build_tool_dir="$build_tools_dir$latest_build_tool"
+aapt2="${latest_build_tool_dir}/aapt2"
 
 echo "Compiling resources"
 $aapt2 compile --dir lineage/res/res -o intermediates/resources.zip
@@ -43,4 +60,4 @@ jar cvf e-ui-sdk.jar -C obj . -C intermediates resources.arsc
 echo "Clearing intermediate sources"
 rm -rf intermediates
 rm -rf obj
-echo "e-ui-sdk.jar generated successully."
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+echo "e-ui-sdk.jar generated successully."