Android error: package org.apache.tools.ant does not exist

Question

I'm trying to add com.github.sardine library and build my app with it. It fails with the following error

Error:(3, 28) error: package org.apache.tools.ant does not exist

Solution is needed.

Answer 1

Adding of the following line to dependencies in build.gradle (Module: app) helps.

dependencies {
...
    compile group: 'org.apache.ant', name: 'ant', version: '1.8.2'
}