New warning when building android app with gradle

Question

Yesterday it was fine, today it shows this warning when I clean or build the project:

WARNING: Ignoring Android API artifact com.google.android:android:2.1_r1 for appDebug WARNING: Ignoring Android API artifact com.google.android:android:2.1_r1 for appRelease

I think it was caused by an update of the gradle plugin for android.

Anyone knows what it means ?

Answer 1

Usually, java libraries depends on com.google.android:android if this library will be used in Android project.

Then you can exclude this module from dependencies of target Android project. Like this:

compile ('some.library.that.depends.on.android') {     exclude group: 'com.google.android' }