How to build old Android project in Android Studio

Question

I've found an old git repo. It's an Android application for Sony System Cameras.

It's for Android SDK 10

The project can be found here: https://github.com/ma1co/PMCADemo

I'm not able to build it in the newest version of Android Studio. I've added the details to the following issue: https://github.com/ma1co/PMCADemo/issues/16

I hope that maybe here more people can help me, the repo is updated the last time in 2018.

Answer 1

I changed the following files, and it is working fine to me (You need to specify the Gradle plugin according to your android studio version, my version is 3.4)

gradle-wrapper.properties

#Sun Jul 21 00:42:34 IST 2019
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
#distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.4-all.zip
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.1.1-all.zip

build.gradle top level

    buildscript {
        repositories {
            jcenter()
            google()
        }
        dependencies {
            classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.4.0'
        }
    }

    allprojects {
        repositories {
            google()
            jcenter()
            maven {
                url "https://jitpack.io"
            }
        }
    }

build.gradle app level

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 28
//    buildToolsVersion "25.0.2"

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.github.ma1co.pmcademo.app"
        minSdkVersion 18
        targetSdkVersion 28
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
        testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
        multiDexEnabled true
    }

//    compileOptions {
//        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_6
//        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_6
//    }
}

//android.applicationVariants.all { variant ->
//    variant.outputs.each { output ->
//        def apkName = "PMCADemo-${output.baseName}-${variant.versionName}.apk"
//        output.outputFile = new File(output.outputFile.parent, apkName)
//    }
//}

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.github.ma1co.OpenMemories-Framework:framework:-SNAPSHOT'
    compileOnly 'com.github.ma1co.OpenMemories-Framework:stubs:-SNAPSHOT'
    implementation 'com.nanohttpd:nanohttpd:2.1.1'
}

It is my output