Android Studio - Importing Simple-Xml library

Question

I am going crazy with my Android Studio IDE.

I am willing to add the Maven library simple-xml from Central (v2.7.1)

1. The project compiles well

Answer 1

I found the problem.

It was the graddle plugin 0.5.+ as I expected.

The Android Studio 0.3.0 with gradle plugin 0.6.+ (Gradle 1.8) now fixes the problem.

However, I made the application to work with the Android Studio 0.2.13 and gradle plugin 0.5 this way:

As the gradle plugin refuses to deploy the library from maven central, I downloaded the library and dependencies to the lib directory of my project. I setup the project to use the library as a local one in the lib directory of the project.

Directions for the workaround:

1. remove all references in my project to simple-xml (maven central) in Module Settings

2. Copy simple-xml-2.7.1.jar, stax-1.2.0.jar, stax-api-1.0.1.jar and xpp3-1.1.3.3.jar to lib directory in my project

3. Select the lib simple-xml-2.7.1.jar in my project and Import the lib using Add as Library contextual menu

4. Change the build.gradle like this:

   dependencies {

   compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:18.0.0'
   
   compile files('simple-xml-2.7.1.jar')
   

   }

Note: do not include the dependencies, otherwise they will create conflicts with the Android system as mentionned by Grzegorz