How to use an AAR file with Android Studio 1.2

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When I use the response of How to manually include external aar package using new Gradle Android Build System I have an error.

BASE: I never use AAR file, with the release of Android Studio we can use it.

But I don't find any explanation to use it.

Do you know how to use it?

It's necessary to make some things like ask for the permissions or create the dependencies?

Thanks

possible duplicate of [How to manually include external aar package using new Gradle Android Build System](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16682847/how-to-manually-include-external-aar-package-using-new-gradle-android-build-syst) — shkschneider, May 05 '15 at 09:46
This is for Android Studio 0.5.8. Maybe they have a better solution now? — David Cesar Santos, May 05 '15 at 09:48
I'm using this way http://stackoverflow.com/a/23326397/1377145, working good enough. — Hugo Gresse, May 05 '15 at 09:49
Android Studio 1.2 (stable, official IDE) is out now and the same solution works since 0.5.8... — shkschneider, May 05 '15 at 12:16
You say "when I use the response of... I have an error". Which is?.. — shkschneider, May 05 '15 at 12:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 07 '15 at 17:42

AAR format is a jar file containing a compiled Android Library project. Here's some info on what is inside an AAR file

What this means for app developers is that instead of (the old way):

Downloading the source code of a library project
Building it in eclipse
Setting your application project to depend on the local library project

You can instead add the dependency specification to your project/app/build.gradle's dependencies block: compile 'fr.baloomba:viewpagerindicator:2.4.2'

Then gradle (on the next build) searches for the aar file in a central binary repository, downloads the library and allows you to use it's functionality in your project. ( ex: http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=fr/baloomba/viewpagerindicator/2.4.2/viewpagerindicator-2.4.2.aar )

You can also search the central repository's web interface for libraries to depend on. Once you've clicked on a library to add to the project, click "Gradle/Grails" under "Dependency Information" to copy the line to add to build.gradle.

In my opinion this is a huge improvement.

You don't need to add any permissions to the app, either way, adding a Library project dependency is a compile time thing, not runtime or user-facing.

How to use an AAR file with Android Studio 1.2

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