Android Studio update today with regression

Question

Started Android Studio today, and it popped up an update notice. Since I'm eager to explore new features and bug fixes, I clicked yes. Now the Project Structure dialog where you setup dependencies is missing, and has been replaced by a message:

We will provide a UI to configure project settings later. Until then, please manually edit your build.gradle file(s.)

So, I go out to try to figure out how to add ActionBarSherlock to my project as a project dependency, and have hit a brick wall. I have no idea how to import ActionBarSherlock project as a Library Project, and configure my project to use it. There isn't much documentation on this at Google, IntelliJ, and the Gradle docs assume a LOT of pre-existing knowledge of build systems.

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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There are plenty of posts on SO how to do this (although referenced with already missing Project structure dialog)

How do I add a library project to Android Studio?

Android-Studio ActionBar sherlock error with gradle

Installing ActionbarSherlock with Android Studio?

Problems importing project into Android Studio regarding ActionBarSherlock

In short:

Create a folder (i.e. /libraries) in your root.
Extract actionbarsherlock there

Create a new file build.gradle in actionbarsherlock root with the following contents

buildscript {
    repositories {
        maven { url 'http://repo1.maven.org/maven2' }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.4'
    }
}
apply plugin: 'android-library'

dependencies {
    compile files('libs/android-support-v4.jar')
}

android {
    compileSdkVersion 17
    buildToolsVersion "17.0.0"

defaultConfig {
    minSdkVersion 7
    targetSdkVersion 16
}

sourceSets {
    main {
        manifest.srcFile 'AndroidManifest.xml'
        java.srcDirs = ['src']
        resources.srcDirs = ['src']
        res.srcDirs = ['res']
    }
}


}

In your project's build.gradle

dependencies {
    //NOTE that "libraries" is actually a folder name you created in step 1
    compile project(":libraries:actionbarsherlock")
    //Any other dependencies here
    //Make sure there is no android-support-v4.jar in this build file
    //as it is already contained in actionbarsherlock project
}

In settings.gradle

//NOTE that "libraries" is actually a folder name you created in step 1
include ':libraries:actionbarsherlock', ':<Your project name>'

EDIT

Last step: Close your project and open it back again for Studio to pick up the Intelli-sense data

edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

Community

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answered May 29 '13 at 05:41

SidhNor

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Your first link is invalid - It says to go to the Project Structure UI, which is now missing post-update. Your second link also makes no mention of WHICH gradle files to edit, again assuming I understand how to use gradle. It's just a copy-paste from chapter 55 of the gradle docs. – regretoverflow May 29 '13 at 15:16
I made a screencast of your instructions, followed to the letter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYns7b2Plvw Still can't figure out how to actually USE actionbarsherlock once I have it built. – regretoverflow May 29 '13 at 18:33
@NikMartin See update above. You could still use the library and compile/run your app with the steps above. It's just you had to do a project reload for Android Studio to pick up the dependency changes you made in the gradle file. Hope this helps now – SidhNor May 29 '13 at 19:24
@NikMartin, although the above links do reference Projects structure UI, they contain information that may help you figure out how to do stuff. – SidhNor May 29 '13 at 19:27
Alas I have thrown in the towel. I deleted Android Studio and reinstalled InrelliJ Community Edition with Android Plug-ins. Android Studio just isn't ready for use except for testing IMO. The final straw was closing the project and reopening when Android Studio popped up a dialog telling me it was deleting BOTH my projects because they were un-used. – regretoverflow May 29 '13 at 22:17
@NikMartin, without doubt, Android Studio is really raw right now. It's connectivity with the actual build system is still in a poor state. I've moved to completely using CLI to build and run the project and using Studio just for code editing :) – SidhNor May 30 '13 at 07:32

Android Studio update today with regression

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