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Gradle dependencies in Xamarin

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Is it possible to integrate dependencies from Gradle inside Xamarin project?

A have some libraries, which I need to install, they look like this

dependencies { compile (name: '<aar fileName>', ext:'aar') compile 'com.koushikdutta.async:androidasync:2.1.6' compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.0' compile 'com.android.support:design:23.1.0' compile }

Can I expose them to Xamarin somehow?

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Alexey K Avatar asked Jun 27 '16 08:06

Alexey K

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2 Answers

There is no gradle in Xamarin.Android.

To get external libraries or Android libraries you could use:

  1. NuGet

  2. Xamarin Components

  3. Do your own Java Library binding

  4. Convert code directly from Java to C#.

  5. There is a plugin for Visual Studio (tested it a few months ago but didn't worked for me) that in theory grabs dependencies from gradle and tries to convert them to C# Bindings.

Here you have a very good github page with awesome Xamarin Plugins.

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jzeferino Avatar answered Sep 19 '22 16:09

jzeferino

Build your Android applications in Visual Studio using Gradle.

With the latest Visual Studio release, if you take a look at the cross-platform C++ section in the File->New project template section, you will see a variety of templates as shown in the figure below. Notice two new Gradle templates that have been introduced.

Source: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/06/12/build-your-android-applications-in-visual-studio-using-gradle/

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Diego Venâncio Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 16:09

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