Integrating moPub into Android Studio

Question

I'm trying to integrate the moPub sdk into my android studio project, but I haven't been able to get the gradle to sync properly. This question has been asked here before, but none of those solutions have worked for me. I followed these instructions, but got the error messages "Plugin with id org.roboelectric not found" and "Unable to load class org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.typehandling.ShortTypeHandling". To fix this, I modified my app's build.gradle with new classpaths:

// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.12.2'
        classpath 'org.robolectric:robolectric-gradle-plugin:1.1.0'
        classpath 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-backports-compat23:2.3.5'

        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
}

Unfortunately, I still get the error message "Error:(1, 0) Cause: org/codehaus/groovy/runtime/StringGroovyMethods". I've tried using version 1.0.1 of gradle but nothing changed. I'm not sure where to go from here, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Read the comment in that build.gradle file.

From this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/23241888/2278598

<PROJECT_ROOT>\\app\\build.gradle is specific for app module.

<PROJECT_ROOT>\\build.gradle is a "Top-level build file" where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.

You need to put the dependencies you are adding in the <PROJECT_ROOT>\\app\\build.gradle

Answer 2

You have configured Robolectric correctly in the top level gradle file.

You need to use a later version of gradle to build using the Groovy plugin. I would use classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.2.3'