How to add aar file to react-native project?

Question

I am building a react-native project but not able to add an aar file as a dependency.

I have followed following steps

1. Created libs folder and placed aar file in that.

2. Written this in top level Gradle

    repositories { mavenCentral() flatDir { dirs 'libs' } }

3. added following line to dependencies

   compile project(name: "xyz", ext: 'aar')

And I am facing this error while building

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':react-native-abc'.
> Required keys [path] are missing from map {name=xyz, ext=aar}.

Answer 1

-> In Step 2, just make sure that while adding

    flatDir{ 
       dirs 'libs' 
    }

in repositories , repository belongs to allprojects instead of buildscript.

-> In step 3 try this :

    compile(name: "xyz",ext: 'aar')