How to add classpath in an Android Studio project

Question

I have an Android project with an Android application that depends on a pure Java library (and the Java library uses some others compiled jars libraries).
I added the dependencies, I can build the project, but at run time I have a ClassNotFoundException error.
I had to add to theCLASSPATHenvironment variable the path to the jars.
Is there a way to set the classpath locally for the project only, like using the command line option

java –classpath <path to the jars>

in the Android studio Run/Debug Configurations?

Answer 1

First off all, be sure there's a "libs" subfolder in the "app" folder of your project. If there's not, create one. Next, in the app/build.gradle file, add this line of code:

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

Place all of your .jar files in the "libs" folder, and voila, you're done

Answer 2

Thanks to Arnold Layne, I created a folder named libs.

Then, I went to

Files -> Project Structure (new menu opens) -> Modules (on the left) -> app -> Dependencies

There, I could add the library with the + Button.

This created this entry:

dependencies {
    implementation files('libs/commons-lang3-3.7.jar')
}