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James Shockley
35 PointsSwitching Android Studio from Eclipse. How the heck do I import my libraries? 1.2.11
Have a bunch of 3rd party libraries. I've googled, but most questions/ results are from older versions. I've broken my project half a dozen times trying to figure this out. Cardviews, recyclers, and support are fine, but none of my 3rd parties are.
Thank you for any assistance.
2 Answers
Jon Kussmann
Courses Plus Student 7,254 PointsMost libraries that you'll find on Github will have a line that tells you how to add the library to your project. For example: Picasso
You'll see the line:
compile 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.5.2'
Add that to your build.gradle file (App module) under dependencies. Android Studio will ask you to sync and then you should be able to use the library.
Seth Kroger
56,409 PointsIf you have the .jar files on your machine locally there is a directory called 'libs' in the app module (Make sure the upper left of the project is set to "Project" and not "Android" to see the actual files) There should also be line in the build.gradle file that says:
compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
It will automatically include all the jar files in the libs directory and add them to the project. If it's not there, just add it under dependencies. Just copy the jars into that folder, sync gradle, and it should work.