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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Networking Getting the OkHttp Library Using Gradle

JS Park
JS Park
15,959 Points
Posted by JS Park
JS Park
15,959 Points

How exactly does Gradle include 3rd party code?

Does it get the files over an Internet connection or are all 3rd party APIs included when you download or update Android Studio? I don't understand how one line of code - compile 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.3.1' - allows us to readily use the okhttp API.

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,414 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,414 Points

There are standard repositories that the authors of 3rd party libraries publish to. The 2 current standard repositories are JCenter and Maven Central, with Android Studio defaulting to JCenter. If you open your project's build.gradle file you'll see the reference to it in:

allprojects {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
}

When you sync you're gradle file it will search any configured repositories for the dependencies you add and download them over the Internet.

JS Park
JS Park
15,959 Points
JS Park
JS Park
15,959 Points

So you would need to have an Internet connection in order for the gradle file to sync?