aar support in Android.mk

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Juude picture Juude · Jul 3, 2015 · Viewed 10.9k times · Source

I am doing android custom ROM development now. the build system of aosp is based on Android.mk, But I want to include some aar libraries, is it possible to include aar libaries in Android.mk ?

Answer

Kostiantyn Luzan picture Kostiantyn Luzan · Dec 30, 2015

You should add following blocks into your Android.mk

LOCAL_STATIC_JAVA_AAR_LIBRARIES:= <aar alias>
.
.
.
include $(BUILD_PACKAGE)

include $(CLEAR_VARS)

LOCAL_PREBUILT_STATIC_JAVA_LIBRARIES := <aar alias>:libs/<lib file>.aar

include $(BUILD_MULTI_PREBUILT)

Please also be aware of satisfy minSdkVersion required by library into your manifest file.

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