Generating Jar file in Android Studio

Question

I have a library project in Android Studio. I want to generate a .jar file for this library. I need the jar file contain/include all the dependencies this Library project has.

The problem is I couldn't find a way of generating a jar file. Is there any way I can generate a jar file for my project?

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Answer 1

Here is an example of Gradle task which creates .jar from classes.jar.

classes.jar file can be found in /build/intermediates/exploded-aar/ folder.

Edit: Create jar file for every Android Library project and distribute them standalone. What about dependencies required by library projects - add those dependencies in final project, where your library will be used.

For example: you Android Library project MyLibProject, which has following dependencies in build.gradle

dependencies {
    compile "com.android.support:support-v4:19.+"
}

When you'll build your project you'll get classes.jar for MyLibProject, and those classes.jar will contain just class from library project, but not from com.android.support:support-v4:19.+.

After that in another project you add classes.jar as library dependency in build.gradle and also define same dependencies as in MyLibProject.

And if you still need fatJar, look here how to create fatJar with Gradle.