How to configure Build.gradle file to include boofcv library in a project for android studio?

Question

i am new to android studio and wants to include boofcv library in my project. I am using Android studio for development. I have done the following steps in order to include the library and is stuck with build.gradle configuration.

Step 1: Have downloaded per-compiled jar files from http://boofcv.org/index.php?title=Download:BoofCV

Step 2: Have updated settings.gradle as

    include ':app'
    include ':libs:boofcv-libs'

Step 3: My build.gradle looks like:

    apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
    buildscript {
           repositories {
                       jcenter()
                         }
           dependencies {
                       classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.2.3'
                        }
                 }
   allprojects {
          repositories {
                    jcenter()
                       }
               }
   dependencies {
         compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
                 }

Answer 1

As the note of your project's build.gradle file will suggest:

// NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong

// in the individual module build.gradle files

Remove the compile statements in that gradle file:

 compile project(":libs:boofcv-libs")

And copy them to other (module's) build.gradle and make dependencies look like this:

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:20.+'
    compile project(":libs:boofcv-libs")


}

Answer 2

BoofCV is on maven central so you could just do the following too:

['calibration','feature','geo','ip','recognition','sfm','android'].each
{ String a -> compile group: 'org.boofcv', name: a, version: '0.18' }

In the next it will be even easier if you just want everything:

compile group: 'org.boofcv', name: "all", version: '0.19-SNAPSHOT'

Answer 3

1. Get latest version from this page https://boofcv.org/index.php?title=Download
2. Convert maven to to gradle using this website and make sure to change artifactId to boofcv-android: http://sagioto.github.io/maven2gradle

so it will be something like this:

compile "org.boofcv:boofcv-android:0.27"

as mentioned in this page, to avoid library conflict add this to app.gradle:

// Remove libraries that conflict with libraries already included with Android
configurations {
    all*.exclude group: "xmlpull", module: "xmlpull"
    all*.exclude group: "org.apache.commons", module: "commons-compress"
}