Add github library depending on Android-Studio project

Question

I am trying to implement ActionBar-PullToRefresh from https://github.com/chrisbanes/ActionBar-PullToRefresh/wiki/QuickStart-ABC . I just switched from Eclipse to Android-Studio, so I am completely new to AS and Gradle.

chrisbanes writes on the website:

The easiest way to add ActionBar-PullToRefresh to your project is through Gradle, you just need to add the following dependency to your build.gradle:

dependencies { mavenCentral() compile 'com.github.chrisbanes.actionbarpulltorefresh:extra-abc:+' } 

Does this mean that I do not need to download the library, and Gradle will take care of this so that I always have the latest version? I just don’t know where to put the line above. I have two Gradle.build files, one in my root, which looks like this:

 // Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules. buildscript { repositories { mavenCentral() } dependencies { classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.8.+' } } 

and the one in my project is as follows:

 apply plugin: 'android' dependencies { compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '*.jar') compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:18.0.+' compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:18.0.+' } android { compileSdkVersion 19 buildToolsVersion "19.0.1" sourceSets { main { manifest.srcFile 'AndroidManifest.xml' java.srcDirs = ['src'] resources.srcDirs = ['src'] aidl.srcDirs = ['src'] renderscript.srcDirs = ['src'] res.srcDirs = ['res'] assets.srcDirs = ['assets'] } // Move the tests to tests/java, tests/res, etc... instrumentTest.setRoot('tests') // Move the build types to build-types/<type> // For instance, build-types/debug/java, build-types/debug/AndroidManifest.xml, ... // This moves them out of them default location under src/<type>/... which would // conflict with src/ being used by the main source set. // Adding new build types or product flavors should be accompanied // by a similar customization. debug.setRoot('build-types/debug') release.setRoot('build-types/release') } } 

Do I need to add a repository somewhere?

Answer 1

It will work if you put this line in your build.gradle project in the dependencies section:

 compile 'com.github.chrisbanes.actionbarpulltorefresh:extra-abc:+' 

Also add:

 repositories { mavenCentral() } 

So:

 repositories { mavenCentral() } dependencies { compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '*.jar') compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:18.0.+' compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:18.0.+' compile 'com.github.chrisbanes.actionbarpulltorefresh:extra-abc:+' } 

Gradle will automatically load the necessary resources.

Answer 2

Use https://jitpack.io/

 allprojects { repositories { jcenter() maven { url "https://jitpack.io" } } } dependencies { compile 'com.github.User:Repo:Tag' }