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

With Android Studio 3.4 and Gradle 5 you can simply do it like this

dependencies {
    implementation files('libs/actionbarsherlock.aar')
}