Android Gradle cannot find symbol class Gson

Question

So i added gson-2.2.4.jar to the libs dir (I\'m using android studio). My project couldn\'t find the gson stuff so I added it as a library dependency to my module in the \"P

Answer 1

Adding it as a dependency in the Project Structure settings is not enough. That setting is only for the IDE. To actually build, Gradle also needs to be aware of it. You must add the .jar file to your build.gradle file like so...

dependencies {
    compile files('libs/gson-2.2.4.jar')
}