Unable to reference classes from aar in Android Studio

Question

Total Android Studio newby here.

Using Android Studio 0.5.9, I successfully created an .arr, now I'm trying to include it in an android app's build.

The sync completes successfully using compile files('libs/scanner-0.1.aar') as can be seen from the image below (or at least I think it completes successfully)

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However, when I try to reference any class from the scanner-0.1.aar I get a cannot resolve symbol error as if the classes where not found/loaded.

Any ideas?

possible duplicate of [Adding local .aar files to my gradle build](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21882804/adding-local-aar-files-to-my-gradle-build) — Eugen Martynov, Jun 27 '14 at 04:09
@EugenMartynov what do you mean? Everything is local in my machine — fernandohur, Jun 27 '14 at 15:19

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 10 '15 at 07:57

Maybe its too late but this is how it works for me:

-scanner-0.1-aar must be inside app/libs inside your project.

-Your gradle must contain these lines:

repositories{
    flatDir {
        dirs 'libs'
    }
}

   dependencies{
       compile ':scanner-0.1.aar@aar'
   }

Unable to reference classes from aar in Android Studio

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