How to manually include external .aar file

Aman Gupta

23 November 2017

In this blog,
We have shown you how to add manually the external aar file in your android application.

How to include

Step 1: Put your aar file in the libs folder. And let’s take the file name is webkul.aar as an example.

Step 2: Put the following code in your Project level build.gradle file,

allprojects { repositories { jcenter() flatDir { dirs 'libs' } } }

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allprojects {
   repositories {
      jcenter()
      flatDir {
        dirs 'libs'
      }
   }
}

and in the app level module write the below code,

dependencies { compile(name:'webkul', ext:'aar') }

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dependencies {
compile(name:'webkul', ext:'aar')
}

Step 3: Then Click sync project with Gradle files.

If everything is working fine, then you will see library entry is made in build ->intermediates -> exploded-aar.

Or you can also follow these following steps,

Go to File>New>New Module
Select “Import .JAR/.AAR Package” and click next,
Enter the path to .aar file and click finish,
Go to File>Project Structure (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S) and go to dependencies tab,
Click the green “+” in the upper right corner,
Select “Module Dependency”,
Select the new module from the list,

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