Android Studio gradle and libraries import

Question

I have successfully imported ActionBarSherlock to my project, and need to import another two libraries: Sliding Layer and Crouton. I know that similar questions have already appeared here before, but I've tried almost everything, each time breaking something in the project in a way that I had to start over.

My project tree looks like:

MyProject/
+ app/
+ libraries/
   + actionbarsherlock/
   + crouton/
   + slidinglayer/

I imported those two libraries as modules (File->Import Module)

My setting.gradle file looks like it should:

include ":libraries:actionbarsherlock", ':Krypto', ':libraries:crouton', ':libraries:slidinglayer'

actionbarsherlock gradle:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        maven { url 'http://repo1.maven.org/maven2' }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.5.+'
    }
}
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']
        }
    }
}

app gradle:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        maven { url 'http://repo1.maven.org/maven2' }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.5.+'
    }
}
apply plugin: 'android'

dependencies {
    compile project(":libraries:actionbarsherlock")
}

android {
    compileSdkVersion 17
    buildToolsVersion "17.0.0"

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 7
        targetSdkVersion 16
    }
}

slidinglayer gradle:

apply plugin: 'android-library'

dependencies {
    compile "com.android.support:support-v4:18.0.0"
}

android {
    compileSdkVersion 18
    buildToolsVersion "18.0.1"

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 4
        targetSdkVersion 18
    }

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

In crouton folder there is no gradle.build file. How it should look like? Theres only java files (no resources).

How to set up correctly dependencies in crouton and slidinglayer libraries?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '13 at 15:36

build.gradle for crouton

buildscript {
    repositories {
        maven { url 'http://repo1.maven.org/maven2' }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.5.+'
    }
}

apply plugin: 'android-library'

dependencies {
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:18.0.0'
}

android {
    compileSdkVersion 18
    buildToolsVersion "18.0.1"

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 9
        targetSdkVersion 17
    }

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

and in your app build.gradle, change

dependencies {
    compile project(":libraries:actionbarsherlock")
}

to

dependencies {
    compile project(":libraries:actionbarsherlock")
    compile project(":libraries:crouton")
    compile project(":libraries:slidinglayer")
}

and import again in Android Studio

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 08 '13 at 13:54

1

I don't know how to solve your problem, but when I faced problem of third party library use in Gradle build, I solved by following way.

Following is my structure of project.

GsonDemoProject
   GsonDemo
      build
      libs
          android-support-v4.jar
          gson.jar
      src
          main
          build.gradle
      build.gradle
      settings.gradle

I edited my build.gradle file which resides in src directory.

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

I put reference of 3rd party library in dependencies tag like above. In my project libs is directory where libraries are put.

answered Aug 08 '13 at 13:54

Chintan Rathod

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I've tried to add crouton library to 'actionbarsherlock/libs' and add 'libs/crouton' to build.gradle, as you suggested - still with errors. Also, I've tried similar idea with adding 'compile files' to dependiences in app build.gradle - still with no results. – Bresiu Aug 08 '13 at 14:22
@Bresiu, are your libraries inside `libs` directory? try `compile files('libs/android-support-v4.jar','libs/actionbarsherlock.jar','libs/crouton.jar')`. As you can see in code, `.jar` is compulsory. :) – Chintan Rathod Aug 08 '13 at 14:25
These libraries are not .jars. These are normal projects mark as libraries. I've tried to adding it to libs folder inside actionbarsherlock as I said, and in second try, I've tried to paste libraries inside apps libs folder. Without success. I don't understand these gradle things. Only library I succesfully imported was actionbarsherlock with this tutorial: http://stackoverflow.com/a/16639227/1888738 with some changes given in comments. – Bresiu Aug 08 '13 at 14:38

Android Studio gradle and libraries import

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