How to use local aar inside flutter plugin?

Question

I\'ve create a flutter plugin with:

flutter create --template plugin flutter_plugin

I\'ve put my aar file inside flutter_plugin/android/src

Answer 1

In my experience, adding direct plugin aar in another plugin project (flutter plugin's android project) is either very difficult or not allowed, so in that case, you have two options,

1. If your aar dependancy is available on gradle, use gradle that in your build file. You can search for it here

2. Or if you are building aar yourself from another project, then you can publish aar to your local maven and use that dependency in your flutter plugin by adding "mavenLocal()" to your plugins build file.

For example here is what I did to fix same issue: My dependancy's build.gradle

group 'com.companyname.artifactname'
version '1.0-SNAPSHOT'

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
        google()
        jcenter()
        maven {
            url "https://maven.google.com" // Google's Maven repository
        }        
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.1'
    }
}
allprojects {
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
        google()
        jcenter()
        maven {
            url "https://maven.google.com" // Google's Maven repository
        }        
    }
}


apply plugin: 'com.android.library'


uploadArchives {
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
    }
}

android {
    compileSdkVersion 23
    buildToolsVersion "23.0.2"

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 15
        targetSdkVersion 23
        versionCode 2
        versionName "2.0.1"
    }
    lintOptions {
        abortOnError false
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
    dependencies {
        compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.2.1'
        compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:23.2.1'
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
}


apply plugin: 'maven-publish'
publishing {
    publications {
      library(MavenPublication) {
        version "1.1"
        artifact(bundleRelease)
      }
    }
}

Then just run following command to publish it to local maven repository

gradlew publishToMavenLocal

And then just add mavenLocal() in your flutter plugin's repositories section and add dependancy as

compile 'com.companyname.artifactname:libraryname:1.1@aar'