Android Studio cannot resolve symbols from imported AAR module

Question

All of the answers in similar questions talk about manunally editting gradle files. But I\'ve used Android Studio to import the AAR file and checked the build.gradle files a

Answer 1

You need to specify the location of "ShowCaseView-5.0.0.aar" in project's build.gradle file. E.G, the ShowCaseView-5.0.0.aar file is in a folder named "libs" under project's root directory, update you build.gradle file to add following

allprojects {
    repositories {
        flatDir {
            dirs 'libs'
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

Recently, I encountered this very same issue. I had an AAR to import into my project. The library was distributed only as AAR. I resolved it by putting my AAR file inside libs/ folder and added the following line in my app module's gradle:

dependencies {
    ...
    compile files('libs/theFirstLib.aar')
}

You can also add multiple AARs like so:

dependencies {
    ...
    compile files('libs/theFirstLib.aar', 'libs/theSecondLib.aar')
}

If you are using Gradle 3.0.0 or higher, you may need to substitue compile with implementation:

implementation files('libs/theFirstLib.aar')

Worked like a charm!

NOTE: Importing an AAR sometimes results to another "cannot resolve symbol" error, which I resolved here when Android Studio and Gradle don't agree.