How to manually include external aar package using new Gradle Android Build System

Question

I\'ve been experimenting with the new android build system and I\'ve run into a small issue. I\'ve compiled my own aar package of ActionBarSherlock which I\'ve called \'act

Answer 1

I've just succeeded!

1. Copy the mylib-0.1.aar file into the libs/ folder

2. Add these lines to the bottom of build.gradle (should be app, not project):

   repositories {
      flatDir {
          dirs 'libs'
      }
   }
   dependencies {
       compile 'com.example.lib:mylib:0.1@aar'
   }
   

3. So far so good. Here comes the most important point:

Gradle needs to access the network for dependencies unless offline mode is enabled.

Make sure that you have enabled Offline work via the checkbox in Project Structures/Gradle

-- OR --

Configure the proxy settings in order to access the network.

To configure the proxy settings you have to modify the project's gradle.properties file, configuring http and https separately as below:

systemProp.http.proxyHost=proxy.example.com
systemProp.http.proxyPort=8080
systemProp.http.proxyUser=user
systemProp.http.proxyPassword=pass
systemProp.http.nonProxyHosts=localhost
systemProp.http.auth.ntlm.domain=example 

systemProp.https.proxyHost=proxy.example.com
systemProp.https.proxyPort=8080
systemProp.https.proxyUser=user
systemProp.https.proxyPassword=pass
systemProp.https.nonProxyHosts=localhost
systemProp.https.auth.ntlm.domain=example 

Hope this works.