Migrating a project from jar to aar in Android

Overview

Prerequisites

Step-by-step

1. Migrating a project from jar to aar

   The sdk release 3.8.1 contains only aar binaries and no longer contain jar binaries.

   Migrating sdk:

   1. Remove sdk jar from the libs folder.
   2. Add the sdk aar to the libs folder.
   3. In the main project build.gradle file, add to all projects repository:
      flatDir
      { dirs ‘libs’ }
   4. Add to the app’s build.gradle dependencies:
      implementation (name:’sdk aar file name without the extension’, ext:’aar’)

   Migrating a plugin:

   1. Remove the plugin jar from the libs folder.
   2. Remove all the plugin resources that were added to the project.
   3. Add the plugin aar to the libs folder.
   4. Add to the app’s build.gradle dependencies:
      implementation (name:’plugin aar file name without the extension’, ext:’aar’)

Expected outcome