I'm building a NativeScript plugin and wrapping some functionality from a JAVA library. In most cases, I've seen users define a dependency with compile 'org.namespace:library:x.y.z' in src/platforms/android/include.gradle but in my case the library is not available in any JAVA repos and is a standalone .jar file.
I've tried some suggestions users have done with actual Android apps, but of course NativeScript is a little different and so far these methods aren't working.
Steps I've tried:
1) platforms/android/include.gradle
repositories {
flatDir {
dirs 'libs'
}
}
dependencies {
compile name: 'SimpleNetworking'
}
2) platforms/android/include.gradle
dependencies {
compile files('libs/SimpleNetworking.jar')
}
Both attempts have ended up failing when testing this on a NativeScript app requiring this plugin as a dependency:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Could not resolve all files for configuration
':app:debugCompileClasspath'.
> Could not find :SimpleNetworking:.
Required by:
project :app
The specific plugin I'm working to resolve can be found here.
Update
After reading this Android Studio Doc about build dependencies and changing the include.gradle file to look like:
dependencies {
implementation files('libs/SimpleNetworking.jar')
}
It seems to have found the file! What appears to be broken now is something else:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Could not resolve all files for configuration ':app:debugCompileClasspath'.
> Failed to transform file 'SimpleNetworking.jar' to match attributes {artifactType=processed-jar} using transform IdentityTransform
> Transform output file /Users/USERNAME/git/ons-testapp/platforms/android/app/libs/SimpleNetworking.jar does not exist.
I'm not sure if this is a related error or something new.
