I have a question that might be a bit “off” for this channel, but I can’t find a better place. If I ...

# android-studio

[Mikael Alfredsson]

I have a question that might be a bit “off” for this channel, but I can’t find a better place.
If I have one Android project and one Intellij (server) project, how can I setup one shared module for data objects between these project? All information I found so far points to that all modules for a project has to be in the same parent folder..

[kevindmoore]

I know that in Android, you can add a module in the settings.gradle file that points to a directory outside of the current one. Not too sure about the Intellij project. What type is it? (Gradle based?)

[Mikael Alfredsson]

It's grade based. Do you have a link to a guide or example?

[kevindmoore]

I do not, but my Android projects share modules outside of a root folder as do my Java Swing projects

[kevindmoore]

Something like this in the settings file:

include ':kotlinUtils'
project(':kotlinUtils').projectDir = new File('../kotlinUtilsX')

[Mikael Alfredsson]

Out with the dog right now, but I'll test as soon as I'm back

[Mikael Alfredsson]

The kotlinUtilsX should be a full project I assume (not just another projects single module folder)

[kevindmoore]

I would imagine you would want to point to the module and not an app (but it would be a project)

[Mikael Alfredsson]

it doesn’t complain, but the classes cant be found either.

[Mikael Alfredsson]

It feel strange that this isn’t a more popular question. If you make a server (intellij) and a client (android), having a shared project with all DataTransferObjects would be beneficial, especially during early development when things can change alot.
(and no, i did not get it to work 😉 )