Hi everyone, Do you know how can i add an aar file...

# multiplatform

[Ahmet Özcan]

Hi everyone,
Do you know how can i add an aar file (3rd party dependency) to one of my multi platform module for android platform side
i tried to create an empty folder with that build.gradle file and aar file

configurations.maybeCreate("default")
artifacts.add("default", file('3rd_party_sdk.aar'))

then i add that as a dependency to my mainAndroid dependency and it worked
but now there are bunch of errors when syncing gradle which also ends with success but i cant use any code complation etc.

[mkrussel]

I just ran into this also.

You have to set it up as a local maven repository.

Create a maven repository in your repository section with a file URL.

Then configure your directory structor how maven servers structure them. Need to include a pom file for it.

[mkrussel]

Comments here shows how to modify gradle.
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-274929

[mkrussel]

Here’s the directory structure. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVENOLD/Repository+Layout+-+Final

[Ahmet Özcan]

Thank you very much i ll look into it

[Ahmet Özcan]

Do you think i need .pom.md5 and .aar.md5 files as well ?

[mkrussel]

I didn’t use them

[Ahmet Özcan]

hmmm i did the folder structure put pom file and the aar file but gradle keep seying faild to resolve file 😞

[mkrussel]

Did you remove our old gradle project with the artifact and update the dependency to use normal dependencies (api("group:artifact:version") instead of the project dependency?

[Ahmet Özcan]

thats how it looks like

[Ahmet Özcan]

and yes i removed the old ones

[mkrussel]

And what does the repository you added look like?

[Ahmet Özcan]

i forgot to send that sorry 🙂

[mkrussel]

Should probably be rootDir instead of projectDir

[mkrussel]

That’s all that I see different from what I did.

[mkrussel]

The not found message should list all the paths it tried for downloading, so you might be able to detect the problem that way.

[mkrussel]

You also need to specify the packaging in the pom file.

<packaging>aar</packaging>

[mkrussel]

The packaging line should fix that.

[Ahmet Özcan]

yes it fixed that 🙂

[Ahmet Özcan]

the references still not included but this is a different problem i guess

[Ahmet Özcan]

thnk you very much for you help

[mkrussel]

Should be possible to include the reference and source the same way you do the .aar file.

I had no reference, so I skipped it.

[Ahmet Özcan]

its ok now that was just a corrupt file

[Ahmet Özcan]

thank you very much for you help 🙏

[mkrussel]

np