Short Answer Gradle is a build system. Long Answer Before Android Studio you were using Eclipse for your development purposes, and, chances are, you didn’t know how to build your Android APK without Eclipse. You can do this on the command line, but you have to learn what each tool (dx and AAPT) does in … Read more
<build> <plugins> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <archive> <manifest> <mainClass>fully.qualified.MainClass</mainClass> </manifest> </archive> <descriptorRefs> <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef> </descriptorRefs> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> and you run it with mvn clean compile assembly:single Compile goal should be added before assembly:single or otherwise the code on your own project is not included. See more details in comments. Commonly this goal is tied to … Read more