how to import your own github forked library into android studio

Question

I found a nice open library on GitHub, I imported it into my Android Studio project using Gradle dependencies, but then I realized I need to make little modifications on it.

Answer 1

I know that this is an old post, but for someone with similar problem, if you simply want a way to change a lib and use it in your project, you can download the lib code, change it and import into your project as a module:

1. Open your project in Android Studio
2. Download the library (using Git, or a zip archive to unzip)
3. Go to File > New > Import Module and import the library as a module
4. Right-click your app in project view and select "Open Module Settings"
5. Click the "Dependencies" tab and then the '+' button
6. Select "Module Dependency"
7. Select the imported module
8. Open your build.gradle file and check that the module is listed under dependencies.

Answer 2

You need to add your own git respository as remote. You can't however do this within Android Studio, according to this thread. Use the command line instead:

git remote add remoteName remoteUrl
git fetch remoteName

Then you can go to Android Studio, VCS > Git > Pull and select your added remote repository.

Answer 3

• Fork and library from Github you want improve
• Open Android Studio > Load Project from Version Control
• Select the project or enter the url (You must be signed to Github version control)
• Now you can Commit and Push to Github without any issues.
• Tag the project with new version, Git > Tag > Create tag
• Open the app gradle file and add:

apply plugin: 'com.github.dcendents.android-maven'
    group='com.github.yourgithubusername'

and open the root gradle file and add:

   classpath 'com.github.dcendents:android-maven-gradle-plugin:1.4.1'

• Go to Android Studio Terminal And type: ./gradlew install
• Now Commit and Push to github
• Go to Jitpack (SignIn with Github on 1st Use)
• Select the library
• Copy the Gradle plugin code after selecting the tag:

implementation 'com.github.username:repo:tag'

Answer 4

This is how you should do it:

• Fork the repo.
• make changes and commit them
• edit the push urls to your github forked repository.
• make a release/tag
• head over to jitpack.io
• generate a url to add to your gradle file

Answer 5

I think the accepted answer is outdated. There is actually a really easy way to do this nowadays: jitpack.io

All you need to do is.

1. add in your root build.gradle at the end of allprojects repositories:

   allprojects { repositories { ... maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' } } }

2. Add the dependency in your app build.gradle:

   dependencies { implementation 'com.github.User:Repo:Tag' }

If you don't have any releases/tags, you can also just do com.github.User:Repo:branchname-SNAPSHOT to build from the latest commit on that branch.