如何将Gradle项目编译为可以在Android应用程序中使用的jar文件

Question

I have an Android application that I've written in Eclipse. I like working with eclipse better than Android Studio.

I found a nice control on Github that I would like to use in my project https://github.com/pedant/sweet-alert-dialog

And it depends on the following project: https://github.com/pnikosis/materialish-progress

I tried compiling with gradle but with no luck. What I need is a JAR file that I can use in my eclipse project. So I first tried to compile the sweet-alert-dialog project and I found out that I need to first somehow include the materialish-progress.

How can I compile those projects into a JAR file that I can drop in my eclipse project and use?

Answer 1

Eclipse use apklib and gradle aar for packaging libraries. Aar is the recommended format to use by google but if you need to generate apklib from gradle you can add this code in your build.gradle

task apklib(type: Zip) {
    appendix = extension = 'apklib'

    from 'AndroidManifest.xml'
    into('res') {
        from 'res'
    }
    into('src') {
        from 'src'
    }
}

Then you could use this task by calling gradle apklib. You may have to adapt this snippet for your project.

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Answer 2

Try to download *.aar files from http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/cn.pedant.sweetalert/library/1.3 and http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.pnikosis/materialish-progress/1.0 , extract class jars from them (they are just archives) and put to your libs folder. May be some resources will need to be copied from archives, too.. But I haven't managed it yet.