SlidingMenu和Maven

Question

When trying to add SlidingMenu as a dependecy like below:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.slidingmenu</groupId>
    <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.2</version>
    <type>pom</type>
</dependency>

I get an error saying it cannot find SlidingMenu. Is the dependency correct? I haven't found it defined anywhere.

Answer 1

You have at least two issues.

1. This dependency does not appear to be available in the Central repository, which means that Maven won't be able to automatically download it. You'll need to download and build the project manually, then install in your local repository using the install plugin: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-install-plugin/examples/specific-local-repo.html
2. The artifactId and type elements are incorrect. Looking at the project link, the artifact ID is slidingmenu , and the type should be apklib . Note that I haven't looked very deeply; there may be other modules in that project.

Also, Maven may or may not be able to properly combine the apklib dependency type. I haven't used Maven to build Android, so don't know what the configuration is, but would suspect it requires some use of the assembly plugin.