Adding external library in Android studio 0.3.6

Question

So I am fairly new to Java, and I am trying to add this library to my project. The problem is that Android studio 0.3.6 doesn\'t have a simple way of doing that and all the

Answer 1

Using Android Studio 0.8.2, I had to do the following (supposing the library you're trying to add is called MyExternalLib):

1. In the "app/libs" folder on the hard disk, create a sub-folder "MyExternalLib", and copy the external library into that folder.
2. In the file "app/build.gradle", inside the block named "dependencies", add the line compile project('libs:MyExternalLib')
3. In the file "settings.gradle", add the line include ':app:libs:MyExternalLib'
4. Click the button "Sync Project with Gradle Files"