Require Gradle project from another directory

Question

I have a directory/project setup like this:

C:\     _dev\         Projects\             Logger             MyProject 

Logger is an Android library project using Gradle. MyProject is a standard Android project project that needs to make use of the Logger library.

I am using Android Studio and have tried adding Logger to the external libraries. Whilst this works during development, I get messages about the class not being found when building.

I'm completely new to Gradle, but have tried the following in my build.gradle within MyProject:

buildscript {     repositories {         mavenCentral()     }     dependencies {         classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.5.+'     } } apply plugin: 'android'  repositories {     mavenCentral() }  android {     compileSdkVersion 18     buildToolsVersion "18.1.0"      defaultConfig {         minSdkVersion 16         targetSdkVersion 18     }      dependencies {         compile files("../Logger")     } }  dependencies {     compile 'com.android.support:gridlayout-v7:18.0.0'     compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:18.0.0' } 

Answer 1

The simplest way is to make MyProject a multi project with the Logger project as a subproject.

settings.gradle in MyProject directory:

include ":logger" project(":logger").projectDir = file("../logger") 

In the build.gradle of MyProject you can now reference this lib as a project:

dependencies {      compile 'com.android.support:gridlayout-v7:18.0.0'      compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:18.0.0'      compile project(":logger") }