Android JRE System library (java.awt.*) is missed

Question

I\'m trying to run pdfbox.jar library on Android and seems like I do everything right. I use Eclipse pluging to deploy the project. The code is very simple just call for pd

Answer 1

The problem is due to the lack of AWT support in android, as others have indicated. A work-around for you could be to use the android port of PDFBox:

https://github.com/Birdbrain2/PdfBox-Android

tldr; replace your gradle dependency on PDFBox with this: org.apache:pdfbox-android:latest version here, and consider adding MultiDex support to your app if you get a DexIndexOverflowException exception.