I have an Android Library module that I need to ship as a JAR. The library has no resources, so I think it's valid to extract the classes.jar from the generated aar file. However, the classes in my library have remote dependencies, so when I try to import classes.jar and instantiate a class defined there, I get a NoClassDefFound problem.
I have read about using the transitive keyword (How do I ship an Android Library (aar) with remote dependencies (gradle)?), but I want to allow users to just drop in JARs to accommodate those not using gradle, so my problem is slightly different.
I can browse to my local gradle cache and find all my library's dependencies (as JARs), so I could pull all these and have users drop them in, but it seems inelegant. Is there a way I can either a) have the jars of the remote dependencies output to a folder in my build directory at library compile time or b) have gradle export all transitive dependencies into my aar?
My gradle.build:
apply plugin: 'android-library' apply plugin: 'maven' android { compileSdkVersion 19 buildToolsVersion "20.0.0" defaultConfig { minSdkVersion 16 targetSdkVersion 16 versionCode 1 versionName "1.0" } buildTypes { release { runProguard false proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro' } } } repositories { mavenLocal() mavenCentral() } dependencies { compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:19.0.0' compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:20.0.0' // my two cloud endpoints libraries compile ([group: 'com.appspot.super_endpoint_999', name: 'hello', version: 'v1-1.18.0-rc-SNAPSHOT']) compile files('libs/advancedhello-v1-1.19.0-SNAPSHOT.jar') compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:4.2.+' compile('com.google.api-client:google-api-client:1.17.0-rc') { exclude(group: 'xpp3', module: 'xpp3') exclude(group: 'org.apache.httpcomponents', module: 'httpclient') exclude(group: 'junit', module: 'junit') exclude(group: 'com.google.android', module: 'android') } compile('com.google.api-client:google-api-client-android:1.17.0-rc') { exclude(group: 'com.google.android.google-play-services', module: 'google-play-services') } compile('com.google.http-client:google-http-client-android:1.17.0-rc') { exclude(group: 'com.google.android', module: 'android') } compile 'com.google.guava:guava:14.0.+' compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar', '*.aar']) } 
