Using flatDirs should be avoided because it doesn't support any meta-data formats

Question

I'm seeing the following warning when building in Android Studio:

Using flatDirs should be avoided because it doesn't support any meta-data formats

I'm integrating with an aar that is packaged locally in my libs directory. Is there another way to integrate without adding the following problematic block to my build.gradle?

repositories {
    flatDir {
        dirs 'libs'
    }
}

Answer 1

Add following piece of code in android block:

android { ..
 sourceSets {
        main {
            jniLibs.srcDirs = ['libs']
        }
    }
}

and add dependency as:

implementation (files("libs/test_name.aar"))

delete following block:

repositories {
    flatDir {
        dirs 'libs'
    }
}