I followed the steps in How to share a single library source across multiple projects to add an external library to a project.
My project(s) structure:
Project MyTest1:
Module MyLib
Project MyTest2:
Module MyApp
I edited settings.gradle in MyTest2 and added , ..:MyTest1:MyLib
to the include directive. Now, I am able to see and use the external library project from within MyTest2
project. Things work as expected.
However, I see a spurious module ".." alongside MyApp
and MyLib
. There are no nodes under it and it doesn't seem to cause any problems. I am wondering what exactly is this module for and if there is a way to get rid of it. Regards.
Edit
Both my projects are under a directory C:\MyDev. It appears that, anytime you bring up MyTest2 project, AS modifies a file MyTest2.idea\modules.xml and inserts the following line:
<module fileurl="file://C:/MyDev.iml" filepath="C:/MyDev.iml" />
It then complains that the module was not loaded and creates a fake ".." module. I think this is the root of the problem.