Add github library as dependency in gradle

Question

How to add library from github using gradle? I tried this and it didn't work. The library I want to use in my project is XLLoop . Here is a code from build.gradle .

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
    compile 'com.github.poidasmith.xlloop:xlloop:0.3.+'
}

Answer 1

XXLoop isn't published as a Maven or Ivy artifact so it isn't directly available to Gradle's dependency management.

You would download the JARs for XXLoop and define dependencies for it's dependencies:

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
    files('libs/xxloop_0.3.jar')
    compile 'something:xxloop-needs:0.1.2'
}

I've done this for a variety of things in production including the generated JARs for interacting with Salesforce or in-house libraries we don't have in an artifact repostory yet.