Adding the Android Licensing Library to an AndroidStudio Project

It appears that currently creating an external library is not all that easy. I wanted to add the Android Licensing Library and they advise creating a copy from it. I decided to just use a project library instead of messing around but have the sources in the repo. Here is what I did:

Download the licensing library with the SDK Manager
Copy it from the android SDK (the location is visible in AndroidStudio->Tools->Android->SDK Manager) to another location
Check in the library into your version control system
In your AndroidStudio project create a library project. Projects->New Module->Library ‘SomeName’ Package name = com.google.android.vendor.licensing
Now with your file system browser go into the ‘SomeName’->src->main->java directory and delete the package that was created
Check out the licensing library into a new empty directory somewhere and go into the src dir and copy the ‘com’ subfolder
Copy this tree to the ‘SomeName’->src->main->java directory (this makes sure the .svn references are now pointing to the correct repo location)

Now in your main project open gradle.build and make sure the new module is listed there (I had to add it)

dependencies

{
    compile project(':assetLib')
    compile project(':openGLISH')
    compile project(':mathLib')
    compile project(':ishlicensing')
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:18.0.0'
}

Now you should be able to compile your project and check everything into svn. (note uncheck ‘Code Analysis’ if pressing the ‘Commit’ button doesn’t do anything).

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Adding the Android Licensing Library to an AndroidStudio Project

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