Gradle for Android AAR Depending Upon AAR, Both In The Same Remote Repository?

Question

There are a few questions floating around regarding transitive dependencies with AAR files in Gradle:

• Android Studio 0.2.3 cannot resolve transitive aar depend

Answer 1

Starting from Android Studio 0.4.4 using .AAR dependencies is as straightforward as using .JAR dependencies. Just put it into \libs directory and reference it in build.gradle:

compile files('libs/YOUR_LIBRARY_NAME.aar')