Android plugin for Gradle does not
support Java-style compile time only dependencies.
After spending a few hours on trying to build android app targeted for Amazon SDK (without using Amazon’s Android specific plugin but just their jar stubs for maps, ADM and Home widget), I finally found that the one way to support compile-time dependencies is following.
For application project
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| configurations {
provided
}
dependencies {
// ...
provided fileTree(dir: "${project.rootDir}/path_to_libs_dir", include: '*.jar')
}
// Android's version of sourceSets.main.compileClasspath
android.applicationVariants.each { variant ->
variant.javaCompile.classpath += configurations.provided
}
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For the library project
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| configurations {
provided
}
dependencies {
// ...
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '*.jar')
provided fileTree(dir: "${project.rootDir}/patch_to_libs_dir", include: '*.jar')
}
android.libraryVariants.all { variant ->
// Exclude the jar files from making its way into the final apk.
// Irrespective of what the path_to_libs_dir is the final jar files end up in libs dir.
variant.packageLibrary.exclude('libs/lib1.jar')
variant.packageLibrary.exclude('libs/lib2.jar')
// ...
}
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References
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16613722/gradle-configurations-not-working-as-expected-in-new-android-build-system
- https://stackoverflow.com/a/24157721
