How do I show dependencies tree in Android Studio?

Question

My goal is to see the tree of dependencies (such as: appcompat, dagger, etc) in a particular project.

Like the one IntelliJ:

Answer 1

The image in the question doesn't really show a tree, just a flat list of everything compiled into the app.

Are you using Gradle?

If so, you can truly see the "tree" by running a Gradle command

Android documentation: View the dependency tree

GUI

1. Select View > Tool Windows > Gradle (or click Gradle icon in the tool windows bar).
2. Expand AppName > Tasks > android and double-click androidDependencies. After Gradle executes the task, the Run window should open to display the output.

CLI

(produces tree-like list)

./gradlew app:dependencies

and/or

(produces flat list)

./gradlew app:androidDependencies

Where app is your module's name

And you get something like so

+--- MyApp:mylibrary:unspecified
|    \--- com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.3.1
|         +--- com.android.support:animated-vector-drawable:25.3.1
|         |    \--- com.android.support:support-vector-drawable:25.3.1
|         |         \--- com.android.support:support-v4:25.3.1
|         |              \--- LOCAL: internal_impl-25.3.1.jar
|         +--- com.android.support:support-v4:25.3.1
|         |    \--- LOCAL: internal_impl-25.3.1.jar
|         \--- com.android.support:support-vector-drawable:25.3.1
|              \--- com.android.support:support-v4:25.3.1
|                   \--- LOCAL: internal_impl-25.3.1.jar
\--- com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.3.1
     +--- com.android.support:animated-vector-drawable:25.3.1
     |    \--- com.android.support:support-vector-drawable:25.3.1
     |         \--- com.android.support:support-v4:25.3.1
     |              \--- LOCAL: internal_impl-25.3.1.jar
     +--- com.android.support:support-v4:25.3.1
     |    \--- LOCAL: internal_impl-25.3.1.jar
     \--- com.android.support:support-vector-drawable:25.3.1
          \--- com.android.support:support-v4:25.3.1
               \--- LOCAL: internal_impl-25.3.1.jar

Note: If you run ls (or dir on Windows) in that folder, and don't see gradlew (or gradlew.bat), you are in the wrong folder.

Answer 2

On the right side, open the gradle tab > click the gradle icon (execute gradle task), in the popup dialog enter :

app:dependencies

in the command line field > ok

Answer 3

Finally, I figured it out. What I do is to select Project from Project menu (See the image below).

Answer 4

Android Studio 3.+

• Open the Gradle panel
• Click the elephant icon, which has the tooltip "Execute Gradle Task"

• Select the app gradle project
• In the command line paste: dependencies
• Click OK

In the Run panel you will find the dependency tree

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Another method:

• Open the Gradle panel

• Find the "(root)" postfix and open (app's folder name)

• Open the Tasks node

• Open the android node

• Double click on the "androidDependencies"

In the Run panel you will find the dependency list

Before a normal build switch back to the normal Build Configuration (next to the hammer)

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Another useful tool:

How to find what dependency is updated: https://github.com/ben-manes/gradle-versions-plugin

Usage

• Add this to project level build.gradle

  apply plugin: "com.github.ben-manes.versions"
  
  buildscript {
    repositories {
      jcenter()    
    }
  
    dependencies {
      classpath "com.github.ben-manes:gradle-versions-plugin:0.20.0"
    }
  }
  

• Sync Now

• Open the Gradle panel
• Click the elephant icon
• Select the root project
• In the command line paste: dependencyUpdates
• Click OK
• Wait a little bit

In the Run panel you will find the result.

Answer 5

Android Studio 3.4

Inspect and visualize each dependency in the dependency graph of your project, as resolved by Gradle during project sync, by following these steps:

1. In the left pane of the PSD, select Dependencies.
2. In the Modules pane, select a module for which you’d like to inspect the resolved dependencies.
3. On the right side of the PSD, open the Resolved Dependencies pane, which is shown below.

Learn more.

Answer 6

terminal command to see all dependencies list is

 ./gradlew -q dependencies app:dependencies --configuration implementation