I'm trying to use the ShowcaseView project in my app but can't get the project to build.
when I run 'gradle clean installDebug' I get the following error:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'hows-it-going'.
Could not find method compile() for arguments [project ':ShowcaseView'] on root project 'hows-it-going'.
I'm using gradle 1.11 and Android Studio 0.54.
I've downloaded the source, and imported the project using file -> Import module -> ShowcaseView
which makes my project structure like:
-project
--app
--ShowcaseView
my settings.gradle file looks like:
include ':app', 'ShowcaseView'
and in my project level build.gradle I have the following:
dependencies {
compile project (':ShowcaseView')
}
Any help with how to include this properly would be much appreciated. Thanks.
I recently just added ShowcaseView
to an Android Studio
project, and I hope this can push you in the correct direction.
My file structure looks something like this:
- project
- app
- libraries
- build.gradle
- settings.gradle
Add the files from the library
folder
of ShowcaseView
to the showcase directory in the libraries
directory.
Add the showcase directory as a module to your project.
Change your app's build.gradle
file to include:
dependencies {
compile project(':libraries:showcase')
}
Change your settings.gradle
to include:
include ':libraries:showcase'
Sync Project with gradle files
This StackOverflow answer goes over how to do this is much more detail if you have any troubles, but this method works for any library.
The latest version of ShowcaseView is available as a .AAR dependency. To use it, add:
repositories {
mavenCentral()
maven {
url 'https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots'
}
}
To your build.gradle file and, under the dependencies block, add:
compile 'com.github.amlcurran.showcaseview:library:5.0.0-SNAPSHOT'
I'll get a stable, non-snapshot, version out soon.
It should actually be
compile 'com.github.amlcurran.showcaseview:library:5.0.0-SNAPSHOT@aar'
That way Maven will use .AAR file
The compile dependency on ShowcaseView
should likely be defined in app/build.gradle
, not in the root project's build.gradle
. Unless a project explicitly (configurations
block) or implicitly (by applying a plugin such as java
) defines a compile
configuration, it won't have one, and an attempt to add a compile
dependency will result in the error you mentioned.
I added this in build.gradle and it worked
compile 'com.github.amlcurran.showcaseview:library:5.4.3'