Seem doesn't get Facebook SDK resource when using Facebook Android SDK in IntelliJ IDEA 12

Question

According to the article Add facebook SDK to IntelliJ Android project?, I choose to add the "facebook.jar" file as a Module in the "Dependencies" section in the project structure. The compile process works fine. However, when I trying to using "Session Login" to login in facebook, I got the runtime error message like this:

02-06 20:15:56.648: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5891): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.facebook.android.R$layout
    at com.facebook.LoginActivity.onCreate(LoginActivity.java:55)
    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:4524)
    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1071)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2115)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2189)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:139)
    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1261)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4894)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

It looks like the facebook.jar doesn't contain the layout resource itself provided in facebook sdk? Don't know if I am right or wrong. I do import the current project and build and run my app via eclipse, and it work like a charm. Everything works flawlessly. However, being a IntelliJ IDEA favorer, I would like to seek if anyone could provide solution for this issue. Many thanks.

Answer 1

OK, finally got the facebook android SDK worked for me. Here are the order of steps I did.

1. Open up and be in your current android project then select File | New Module
2. Choose "Library Module" on the left-side panel.
3. Fill in the required information on the right-side panel. Here I just given the:
   
   • Module name: "facebook"
   • Content root: Choose where the downloaded facebook android SDK is, and be sure to select the subfolder named "facebook"
     
     
     
     
     
   • Module file location: same as Content root
     
     

   • Package name: com.facebook.android (Guess could assign arbitrarily?)
4. Click finish button and wowla~ you got the facebook android sdk module in your project.
5. Go to File | Project Structure then select the Modules pages at the left panel
   
   

6. Select your original android project, Click Plus(Add) button to add a new Module Dependency, you will see the facebook module we created above just shown for selection. Select it.
7. Click the apply, OK button. Then you got the facebook android SDK worked flawlessly in you android application. Congrats!!

Answer 2

i had same problem but i'm using eclipse so my steps to solve this problem using eclipse :

1-in eclipse after you import facebook sdk to your workspace right click on FacebookSDk library then chose properties or press Alt + enter 2 - chose "java build path" from leth then go to Libraries Tab

3- click "add external jars" then go to facebook sdk path or location chose libs folder add android-support-v4 file and bolts file
now you done you are happy

i hope this halps

Answer 3

Cloud's solution didn't work for me so I'll post mine below. Specifically, mine didn't work because I was already using the appcompat support library, so this will be especially useful in this case.

ONLY DO THE HIGHLIGHTED STEPS IF YOU ARE ALREADY USING THE APPCOMPAT SUPPORT LIBRARY.

1. Click File -> Project Structure -> Modules. Click the green + -> Import module. Select the facebook folder from the facebook SDK and click OK.
2. Select Create module from existing sources -> Next -> Next.

3. Click split (the pink/blue button at the top). Type FacebookDependencies in Name -> select bolts.. -> OK. Uncheck the other one (libs?).

4. Click Next -> Next -> Finish.

5. Click the green + on the right -> 2. Library -> (the library that contains your android-support-v4.jar - you can check in the Libraries page on the left) -> Add Selected.

6. Click the green + on the right -> 3. Module Dependency -> appcompat -> OK.

7. Click your module.

8. Click the green + on the right -> 2. Library -> FacebookDependencies (or whatever name it had previously in step 3) -> Add Selected.

9. Click the green + on the right -> 3. Module Dependency -> facebook -> OK.

Answer 4

A much simpler approach is to import the Facebook SDK as an AAR library in your Android app's Gradle build. For doing so, I suggest not to reinvent the wheel and use the facebook-api-android-aar project (see https://github.com/mente/facebook-api-android-aar) instead. As explained on this project's documentation (in the README.md file) the simple way is to use a pre-built Maven artifact of the Facebook SDK, by adding the following code in your application's build.gradle file:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:+'
    }
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    mavenLocal()
    maven {
        url "http://mente.github.io/facebook-api-android-aar"
    }
}

apply plugin: 'android'
dependencies {
    compile ('com.facebook:facebook-android-sdk:+@aar') {
        transitive = true
    }

    // other dependecies definition here
}

android {
   //android build setup
} 

That's it. Note that this tool support version 3.0.2, 3.5.0, 3.5.2, 3.6.0, 3.7.0, 3.8.0, 3.14.1, 3.15.0, 3.16 of the Facebook SDK.

Ciao