I am new to the cordova plugin development stuff. I want to write a plugin which is able to open a new android activty and showing some advertisement.
So I followed a simple tutorial here. That works very well and as expected.
Next step is to include this Android Studio Gradle project to my plugin.
My first try: Adding the gradle project to a subfolder of my cordova plugin and adding the following line to the plugin.xml file:
<framework src="libs/Broper/build.gradle" custom="true" type="gradleReference" />
also I tried:
<framework src="libs/Broper/app/build.gradle" custom="true" type="gradleReference" />
doesn't work. So I can't import the classes of that android studio project to my plugin java files.
Then a better solution (I thought so) is to add an AAR instead. But there I don't even have a clue what to do to add that AAR in my cordova plugin.
So, the question is: How do I add an android studio project (or library) to my cordova plugin the right way?
Here's what I've done to use a gradle reference with a Cordova plugin, I think this might help you.
Global structure :
pluginFolder/
build-extras.gradle
plugin.xml
yourDirContainingYourAAR/
src/
android/
yourFile.gradle
myPlugin.java
Put your library, say foo.aar
, in the yourDirContainingYourAAR
directory (create it if needed)
In the plugin.xml
file :
<platform name="android">
<!-- your configuration elements, references, source files, etc... -->
<framework src="src/android/yourFile.gradle" custom="true" type="gradleReference" />
<resource-file src="yourDirContainingYourAAR/foo.aar" target="libs/foo.aar" />
</platform>
In the gradle file yourFile.gradle
:
repositories{
jcenter()
flatDir {
dirs 'libs'
}
}
dependencies {
compile(name:'foo', ext:'aar')
}
android {
packagingOptions {
exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
}
}
In the root folder of your plugin (same level as plugin.xml
) create a build-extras.gradle
.
If needed, add or remove minSdkVersion
and targetSdkVersion
according to your project needs :
android {
defaultConfig {
minSdkVersion 16
targetSdkVersion 22
}
packagingOptions {
exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
}
}