How to build an android app with external libraries using ant?

Question

I have an existing project that builds fine using my IDE. I\'d like to use the \"android update\" command to generate an ant buildfile for this project.

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Answer 1

I spent some time trying to get the Facebook API to work with ant. The trick for me was to add this to my default.properties files.

android.library.reference.1=../Facebook

Where ../Facebook contains AndroidManifest.xml, etc. The real key being the relative path. Don't use an absolute path because Ant seems to treat your project directory as the root.

This should hold true for other library projects that you are including from source code.