For Eclipse A good way to add external JARs to your Android project or any Java project is: Create a folder called libs in your project’s root folder Copy your JAR files to the libs folder Now right click on the Jar file and then select Build Path > Add to Build Path, which will … Read more
Here are two ways to pass value from Gradle to use in Java; Generate Java Constants android { buildTypes { debug { buildConfigField “int”, “FOO”, “42” buildConfigField “String”, “FOO_STRING”, “\”foo\”” buildConfigField “boolean”, “LOG”, “true” } release { buildConfigField “int”, “FOO”, “52” buildConfigField “String”, “FOO_STRING”, “\”bar\”” buildConfigField “boolean”, “LOG”, “false” } } } You can access … Read more
Two ways In gradle.properties in the .gradle directory in your HOME_DIRECTORY set org.gradle.java.home=/path_to_jdk_directory or: In your build.gradle compileJava.options.fork = true compileJava.options.forkOptions.executable=”/path_to_javac”
Hardware I’m sorry, but upgrading development station to SSD and tons of ram has probably a bigger influence than points below combined. Tools versions Increasing build performance has major priority for the development teams, so make sure you are using latest Gradle and Android Gradle Plugin. Configuration File Create a file named gradle.properties in whatever … Read more
If you are using version 0.14.0 or higher of the gradle plugin, you should replace “runProguard” with “minifyEnabled” in your build.gradle files. runProguard was renamed to minifyEnabled in version 0.14.0. For more info, See Android Build System
Please follow below steps to get it working ( I have tested it up to Android Studio 2.2) Lets say you have kept aar file in libs folder. ( assume file name is cards.aar ) then in app build.gradle specify following and click sync project with Gradle files. Open Project level build.gradle and add flatDir{dirs … Read more
You can add this in yourProject/app/build.gradle inside android{}. The exclude function adds the named resource to the list of resources that are not packaged in the APK. android { packagingOptions { exclude ‘META-INF/DEPENDENCIES’ exclude ‘META-INF/LICENSE’ exclude ‘META-INF/LICENSE.txt’ exclude ‘META-INF/license.txt’ exclude ‘META-INF/NOTICE’ exclude ‘META-INF/NOTICE.txt’ exclude ‘META-INF/notice.txt’ exclude ‘META-INF/ASL2.0’ exclude(“META-INF/*.kotlin_module”) } } The exclude function is deprecated … Read more
You CAN do this with gradle. I’ve made a demo project showing how. The trick is to use gradle’s ability to merge multiple resource folders, and set the res folder as well as the nested subfolders in the sourceSets block. The quirk is that you can’t declare a container resource folder before you declare that … Read more
According to the documentation, use a relative path for a local jar dependency as follows. Groovy syntax: dependencies { implementation files(‘libs/something_local.jar’) } Kotlin syntax: dependencies { implementation(files(“libs/something_local.jar”)) }
You can solve this with one of the following solutions: Update: As of Android studio 3.0, it becomes much easier as it now shows a more helpful hint, so we only need to follow this hint. for example: All com.android.support libraries must use the exact same version specification (mixing versions can lead to runtime crashes). … Read more