how to create a jar file from android studio

java android jar aar
vishal dharankar picture vishal dharankar · Jun 11, 2015 · Viewed 9.8k times · Source

I have a fairly latest version of android studio, I have created a module under a project which is basically supposed to be a library, when I build it, it creates an ".aar" file , what I want is .jar file as this library is supposed to be used with eclipse as well.

The library contains activity as well, is there any way by which I can create a .jar file which I can use on Eclipse as well Android Studio ?

I have already created this module and tried building , as a result it generated .aar file and not a .jar file.

Answer

shkschneider picture shkschneider · Jun 16, 2015

I found a way to achieve this, plain simple, using Gradle 2.2.1:

task jar(type: Jar, dependsOn: 'assembleRelease') {
    from fileTree(dir: 'build/intermediates/classes/release')
}

Place this in your library module. It will compile it as release and produce a JAR file in: build/libs.

bash gradlew jar or use your IDE to target that jar Gradle task.

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