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

If you use Gradle Kotlin DSL, you need to add a file in your module directory.

For example: libs/someAndroidArchive.aar

After just write this in your module build.gradle.kts in dependency block:

implementation(files("libs/someAndroidArchive.aar"))