How to create an Android Library Jar with gradle without publicly revealing source code?

Question

I would like to create a Jar out of an Android library project. It is set up the following way:

ProjectName
    \\- lib
    |   \\- lib
    |       \\- armea         


        

Answer 1

Note: The answer has been edited. Please see the 07/28/2014 update below.

Here is a solution I ended up coming up with. There may be a better way available, but I have not found it yet.

android {
    compileSdkVersion 18
    buildToolsVersion "18.0.1"

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 10
        targetSdkVersion 18
    }

    sourceSets {
        main {
            java {
                srcDir 'src/main/java'
            }
            resources {
                srcDir 'src/../lib'
            }
        }
    }
}

task clearJar(type: Delete) {
    delete 'build/libs/ProjectName.jar'
}

task makeJar(type: Copy) {
    from('build/bundles/release/')
    into('build/libs/')
    include('classes.jar')
    rename ('classes.jar', 'ProjectName.jar')
}

makeJar.dependsOn(clearJar, build)

Running gradlew makeJar creates a ProjectName.jar in the build/libs directory. The structure of this jar is as follows:

ProjectName.jar
    \- lib
    |   \- armeabi
    |       \- libNativeFirst.so
    |       \- libNativeSecond.so
    \- com
        \- package
            \- sdk
                \- PackageSDK.class

This is the exact result I needed. I am now able to use ProjectName.jar successfully in other projects.

EDIT: While I am able to use the resulting jar in projects within Android Studio, I cannot do so in projects created in ADT due to a warning about native code being present inside a jar file. Supposedly there is a flag to turn off this check in settings, but it does not function correctly. Thus, if you want to create a library that uses native code, those using ADT will have to manually copy the armeabi directory into libs/.

07/28/2014 Update:

As of Android Studio 0.8.0, Gradle output directories have been changed and the configuration outlined above will not work. I have changed my configuration to the following:

task clearJar(type: Delete) {
    delete 'build/outputs/ProjectName.jar'
}

task makeJar(type: Copy) {
    from('build/intermediates/bundles/release/')
    into('build/outputs/')
    include('classes.jar')
    rename ('classes.jar', 'ProjectName.jar')
}

IMPORTANT: Please note that ProjectName.jar will now be placed into build/outputs/ and NOT into build/libs/.