How to support AARs in Eclipse?

Question

In the new Gradle build system, we can package Android projects in very convenient .AAR format.

Unfortunately the ADT Eclipse plugin, v22 , does not support this file format. Please can it do so.

Answer 1

I am currently renaming .aar file as .zip and then extracting it. After that I rename the classes.jar to jar file name I want. A bit tedious but this is how I am currently using .aars file in eclipse.