Why can't android find com.google.gson.Gson

Question

I\'m trying to use GSON in my project, but my application is crashing, with logcat saying that com.google.gson.Gson cannot be found. I\'ve put import com.google.gson.Gson on my

Answer 1

I had similar problem, but I guess my requirement was more complicated as the GSON libarary was used by an Android Library Project that my main Android project depended on. I have tried both approaches above but none of them worked for me. If I add the GSON jar file directly to the main Android project it works, but that is not what I wanted.

With a bit of investigation I have realised that the GSON jar does not use any dependencies (third party libraries) itself. So my solution was to copy the source file of the GSON project to my Android Library project's src filder and it worked like a charm. so you can use the Source code rather then the binary code. The source code is part of the download in a jar file, just unzip it.