Use custom supplied .jar files when building with gradle (not repository)?

Question

I have a custom build version of a common library that I want my Gradle build to use instead of downloading standard version from any repository.

Ideally, I need to place *jar files of the library in a project's subfolder and make gradle to use that copy of library when building and later running my project.

How can I achieve that?

Answer 1

Please have a look at the docs. You can define a flat directory repository, which is explained here:

repositories {
    flatDir {
        dirs 'lib'
    }
    flatDir {
        dirs 'lib1', 'lib2'
    }
}

or you can also include a flat jar file as a dependency, see here:

dependencies {
    runtime files('libs/a.jar', 'libs/b.jar')
    runtime fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '*.jar')
}