Best way to incorporate Volley or other library into Android Studio project

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I ve seen different advice on the best way to do this This question covers creating a jar  Elsewhere  I ve seen advice to simply copy the volley source into your own project  This section on libraries at android com would seem the most authoritative  However  after compiling volley  I don t have an aal library  whereas that section says I should have   So my question is this  I have an existing Android Studio project with a standard layout  and a git repository  what should I do to add volley  Where should I download it to  How should I add it to Android Studio  Which Gradle files  if any  do I need to modify   Hopefully  for those of you have done this a few times  this should be bread-and-butter stuff  but I haven t been able to find a straightforward description   --  Updating  per Scott Barta s suggestion   The gradle build file in the volley repository has this line   apply plugin   android-library    According to the documentation   Library projects do not generate an APK  they generate a  aar package  which stands for Android archive    However  when I build the volley project  no  aar is created   My feeling is that as Volley is a library project  created by the Android team  it is most probably intended to be generated and used as  aar package  Any advice on whether it would be preferable to generate a  aar  and how to do that  would be appreciated

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Nowadays  dependencies       compile  com android volley volley 1 0 0         A lot of different ways to do it back in the day  original answer      Add volley jar as library   Download it from  http   api androidhive info volley volley jar Place it in your  MyProjectPath  app libs  folder       Use the source files from git  a rather manual general way described here    Download   install the git client  if you don t have it on your system yet   http   git-scm com downloads  or via git clone https   github com git git     sry bad one  but couldn t resist     Execute git clone https   android googlesource com platform frameworks volley Copy the com folder from within  path where you typed git clone  volley src to your projects app src main java folder  Integrate it instead  if you already have a com folder there    -        The files show up immediately in Android Studio  For Eclipse you will have to right-click on the src folder and press refresh  or F5  first       Use gradle via the  unofficial  maven mirror   In your project s src build gradle file add following volley dependency   dependencies       compile fileTree dir   libs   include      jar                    compile  com mcxiaoke volley library 1       Click on Try Again which should right away appear on the top of the file  or just Build it if not     The main  advantage  here is  that this will keep the version up to date for you  whereas in the other two cases you would have to manually update volley    On the  downside  it is not officially from google  but a third party weekly mirror   But both of these points  are really relative to what you would need want   Also if you don t want updates  just put the desired version there instead e g  compile  com mcxiaoke volley library 1 0 7

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UPDATE   compile  com android volley volley 1 0 0    OLD ANSWER  You need the next in your build gradle of your app module       dependencies           compile  com mcxiaoke volley library 1 0 19           Rest of your dependencies           This is not the official repo but is a highly trusted one

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As of today  there is an official Android-hosted copy of Volley available on JCenter   compile  com android volley volley 1 0 0   This was compiled from the AOSP volley source code

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For incorporate volley in android studio    paste the following command in terminal   git clone https   android googlesource com platform frameworks volley   and run it   Refer android developer tutorial for this  It will create a folder name volley in the src directory  Then go to android studio and right click on the project  choose New -  Module from the list  Then click on import existing Project from the below list  you will see a text input area namely source directory  browse the folder you downloaded  volley  and then click on finish  you will see a folder volley in your project view  the switch to android view and open the build gradle Module app  file and append the following line in the dependency area   compile  com mcxiaoke volley library-aar 1 0 0  Now synchronise your project and also build your project

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add  compile  com mcxiaoke volley library 1 0 19          compile project  volley     in the dependencies  under build gradle file of your app  DO NOT DISTURB THE build gradle FILE OF YOUR LIBRARY  IT S YOUR APP S GRADLE FILE ONLY YOU NEED TO ALTER

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LATEST UPDATE   Use the official version from jCenter instead   dependencies       compile  com android volley volley 1 0 0      The dependencies below points to deprecated volley that is no longer maintained   ORIGINAL ANSWER  You can use this in dependency section of your build gradle file to use volley    dependencies         compile  com mcxiaoke volley library-aar 1 0 0        UPDATED   Its not official but a mirror copy of official Volley  It is regularly synced and updated with official Volley Repository so you can go ahead to use it without any worry   https   github com mcxiaoke android-volley

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I have set up Volley as a separate Project  That way its not tied to any project and exist independently   I also have a Nexus server  Internal repo  setup so I can access volley as compile  com mycompany volley volley 1 0 4  in any project I need   Any time I update Volley project  I just need to change the version number in other projects   I feel very comfortable with this approach

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As pointed out by others as well  Volley is officially available on Github  Add this line to your gradle dependencies for volley  compile  com android volley volley 1 0 0    To install volley from source read below  I like to keep the official volley repository in my app  That way I get it from the official source and can get updates without depending on anyone else and mitigating concerns expressed by other people  Added volley as a submodule alongside app  git submodule add -b master https   github com google volley git volley  In my settings gradle  added the following line to add volley as a module  include   volley   In my app build gradle  I added a compile dependency for the volley project compile project   volley    That s all  Volley can now be used in my project  Everytime I want to sync the volley module with Google s repo  i run this  git submodule foreach git pull

[gradle] Best way to incorporate Volley (or other library) into Android Studio project

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