Steps to get SignalR working in Android Studio

Question

I\'m trying to bring SignalR into my Android Studio project.

I successfully followed the tutorial on getting started with SignalR,

Answer 1

I got this working with just Android Studio and the files from the GitHub project.

Here's what I had to do, for posterity's sake.

1. Extract the zip file from github
2. Open the contents in Android Studio as a separate project, and Build. It produces:
   • signalr-client-sdk-android-debug.aar in java-client\signalr-client-sdk-android\build\outputs\aar
   • signalr-client-sdk.jar in java-client\signalr-client-sdk\build\libs
3. Copy these 2 files into the libs folder of your app.
4. Go into module's build.gradle and add:

repositories {
    flatDir{
        dirs 'libs'
    }
}
dependencies {
    compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.3.1'
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile(name: 'signalr-client-sdk-android-release', ext: 'aar')
}

6. Tools, Android, Sync Project with Gradle Files, and when that was successful I did a Build.

7. Then finally, this line of code gave me the ALT+Enter prompt to generate the imports for this line of code:

Platform.loadPlatformComponent(new AndroidPlatformComponent());

which gave me:

import microsoft.aspnet.signalr.client.Platform;
import microsoft.aspnet.signalr.client.http.android.AndroidPlatformComponent;

Whew!