Cordova plugin development - adding aar
Here's what I've done to use a gradle reference with a Cordova plugin, I think this might help you.
Global structure :
pluginFolder/ build-extras.gradle plugin.xml yourDirContainingYourAAR/ src/ android/ yourFile.gradle myPlugin.java
Put your library, say foo.aar
, in the yourDirContainingYourAAR
directory (create it if needed)
In the
plugin.xml
file :<platform name="android"> <!-- your configuration elements, references, source files, etc... --> <framework src="src/android/yourFile.gradle" custom="true" type="gradleReference" /> <resource-file src="yourDirContainingYourAAR/foo.aar" target="libs/foo.aar" /></platform>
In the gradle file
yourFile.gradle
:repositories{ jcenter() flatDir { dirs 'libs' }}dependencies { compile(name:'foo', ext:'aar')}android { packagingOptions { exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE' exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE' }}
In the root folder of your plugin (same level as
plugin.xml
) create abuild-extras.gradle
.If needed, add or removeminSdkVersion
andtargetSdkVersion
according to your project needs :android { defaultConfig { minSdkVersion 16 targetSdkVersion 22 } packagingOptions { exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE' exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE' }}
There has to be a slight modification to Niko's answer
When gradle runs the compilation using Niko's answer, it searches for the libs in app/libs
which is not present in the project (it does in the standard Android Studio project, but in Cordova Android project structure the libs folder is different). However the plugin copies the aar library to app/src/main/libs
which can make us think it is copying the aar to app/libs
<resource-file src="yourDirContainingYourAAR/foo.aar" target="libs/foo.aar" />
Hence the gradle file should be
repositories{ jcenter() flatDir { dirs 'src/main/libs' }}dependencies { compile(name:'foo', ext:'aar')}android { packagingOptions { exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE' exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE' }}
This will give you a successful compilation of the app
Cheers!!
After cordova project creation, adding platform, adding plugin is done.
Lets say the aar file are copied in libs folder. ( assume file name is cards.aar )
then in app build.gradle specify following and click sync project with Gradle files.
repositories { flatDir { dirs 'libs' }}dependencies { compile(name:'cards', ext:'aar')}
It works for me!! but one drawback of this solution is .. you need to open the project from platform folder on Android Studio and add the above lines to your build.gradle