Does the Android Gradle plugin support loading native libraries via Maven?

Question

Let's say I have setup the following for all architectures:

<dependency>
    <groupId>de.ch-werner</groupId>
    <artifactId>sqlite-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>3.7.9</version>
    <type>so</type>
    <classifier>linux-x86_64</classifier>
</dependency>

I have an Android Studio project with a jniLibs dir under the main directory in my app module. Is it possible for the Android Studio plugin to download the so's artifacts from a Maven repo and install them, or is that not yet supported?

Answer 1

Yes, you can integrate .so's from a maven artifact.

The proper way to do this is to make an aar : http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/aar-format

You can put your .so files inside /jni/<abi>/*.so , where <abi> is armeabi , armeabi-v7a , arm64-v8a , x86 , x86_64 , mips and mips64 , depending on the various android architectures you're supporting.