I have downloaded an 3rd party Android library project, the project contains no java class file but an jar file under libs/ folder: libs/ - CustomService.jar res/ -… pom.xml This library proje...

I hit this error and found no hits for the error message, so I thought I'd share the solution I came up with to save anyone else facing the problem repeating my work. When writing a new Android li...

From my understanding, apklib contains code + resource shared with Maven . aar files are distributed by Gradle. The aar differ from apklib in one major way : classes are compiled and included in ...

I was following this question but it doesn't answer my question completely. What is real advantage of apklib from jar? Possible answers: It contains resources But I can easily put resources t...