How to add a jar in External Libraries in android studio

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I am new to Android Studio  What I need to do is add a few jar files in the External Libraries below the  lt  JDK   folder     If anyone has knowledge of how to do this  please help me

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Step 1  Download any JAR file for your Project   Step 2   Copy  jar file and past in libs folder      Step 3   Click on File   Project Structure  Select app   Dependencies    Step 4     Step 5     Step 6  After click Ok button then we can see the Dependencies add like this way

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Example with Parse jar     Add jars to libs folder from Project view     create lib folder if not exists    Copy all jars there     Add libs to gradle     in build gradle file    dependencies       compile fileTree dir   libs   include      jar        compile  com android support appcompat-v7 23 0 0      compile  com android support design 23 0 0      compile  com android support percent 23 0 0      compile  com parse bolts bolts-android 1        compile fileTree dir   libs   include   Parse-  jar         For add all jars of lib folder    change Parse-  jar to   jar

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If you dont see option  Add as Library   make sure you extract  unzip  your file so that you have mail jar and not mail zip   Then right click your file  and you can see the option  Add as library

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Create libs folder under app folder and copy jar file into it  Add following line to dependcies in app build gradle file   implementation fileTree include     jar   dir   libs

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Manually   Add libs folder in your project Where build gradle is located   E g  app Move  jar into libs Add implementation files  libs  lt name gt  jar   into build gradle  It is the same as UI Add as library do

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This is how you can add  jar file in Android Studio 2 1 3    Copy the  jar file  paste the file in Libs folder and then right click on  jar file and press Add as library  open build gradle  add lines under dependencies as shown in screenshot  Now press play button and you are done adding  jar file

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Please provide the jar file location in build gradle  implementation fileTree dir    lt DirName gt    include      jar      Example   implementation fileTree dir   C  Downloads   include      jar      To add single jar file  implementation files  libs foo jar     Note  compile is deprecated in latest gradle  hence use implementation instead

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If anyone is looking for another solution without actually copying the jar file s  into the project directory  e g  when using a jar in multiple projects   Open build gradle and add  def myJarFolder    C  Path To My Jars          dependencies                 compile fileTree dir  myJarFolder     jar Sub Folder 1   include      jar        compile fileTree dir  myJarFolder     jar Sub Folder 2   include      jar                  Note that of course you don t have to use the myJarFolder variable  I find it useful though  The path can also be relative  e g        Path To My Jars  Tested with AndroidStudio 3 0  Update  For Gradle Plugin   3 0 use implementation instead of compile    dependencies                         implementation fileTree dir  myJarFolder     jar Sub Folder 1   include      jar            implementation fileTree dir  myJarFolder     jar Sub Folder 2   include      jar

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A simple way to add Jar file Android Studio Steps    Copy and paste your jar file to libs folder of your project  Click File from File menu -  Project Structure  CTRL   SHIFT   ALT   S on Windows Linux        on Mac OS X   Select Modules at the left panel -  Dependencies tab  Add      Project Library   Attach Jar

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Add your jar file to the folder app libs  Then right click the jar file and click  add as library    If there is no libs folder you can create it  Click on the combo box that says  Android   and change it to  Project     From here  you can right click on  apps  in the directory tree and go to  New      Directory

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Put your JAR in app libs  and in app build gradle add in the dependencies section   compile fileTree dir   libs   include      jar

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A late answer  although I thought of giving an in-depth answer to this question  This method is suitable for Android Studio 1 0 0 and above   STEPS   First switch your folder structure from Android to Project     Now search for the libs folder inside the app folder     Once you have pasted the  jar file inside libs folder  Right click on the jar file and at end click on Add as library  This will take care of adding     compile files  libs library name jar   in build gradle  You don t have to manually enter this in your build file     Now you can start using the library in your project

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Create  libs  folder in app directory copy your jar file in libs folder right click on your jar file in Android Studio and Add As library     Then open build gradle and add this   dependencies       implementation files  libs your jar file jar

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The GUI based approach would be to add an additional module in your project    From the File menu select Project Structure and click on the green plus icon on the top left   The new Module dialog pops  From the phone and tablet application group select the  Import JAR or AAR package  option and click next  Follow the steps to create a new module that contains your JAR file  Click on the entry that corresponds to your main project and select the dependencies tab   Add a dependency to the module that you created in step 4    One final piece of advice  Make sure that the JAR file you include is build with at most JDK 1 7  Many problems relating to error message  com android dx cf iface ParseException  bad class file magic  cafebabe  or version  0034 0000   root straight to this  0

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The  official way  to add a jar into your android project as an   external library  is to add the jar in dependencies     section in   build gradle    If you ve done all of the above  and none of the above works  then there are two other possibilities    If Android Studio or some other IDE doesn t give red underlined errors in editor but runs in error in the Java Compiler  CHECK YOUR JAR  Your jar may not have a proper Manifest included therefore the compiler doesn t know what the jar can provide don t know it s package name Maybe it s folder structure is messed up  The folder structure doesn t match with its package name  package a b c  should be matching to folder a   folder b   folder c  The package name has some conflict   Trust me  this happened to me and it took hours to figure it out       However  if you are going with cordova  here are some tips of adding external jars        build-extras gradle  is the better way to manage your gradle file    Here are the steps to manage extra settings in cordova-based android project    Adding your jar into build-extras gradle      Other settings go here  e g   buildscript         ext postBuildExtras        you may have some other settings  e g   android                 dependencies                   compile files  libs abc jar                    More detailed steps here  Extending the cordova gradle file to include google services     In terminal  do       cordova build android

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In Android Studio version 3 0 or more I have used bellow like    Create libs to the app directory if not exist folder like   Set Project view in upper left corner Go to project Go to app click on apps- gt New- gt Directory name the folder libs paste the jar to the libs folder directory will look like bellow image    In build gradle add these lines    Add this line if was not added before  implementation fileTree dir   libs   include      jar     implementation files  libs com ibm icu 3 4 4 1 jar

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