Android Gradle Plugin: Create AAR with Jar Dependencies and Proguard

Question

I am using Gradle plugin 0.9 and Android Studio 0.5.4.

I have an Android Library Project with one dependency .jar inside /libs folder. When I run assembleRelease task with Proguard activated the resulting AAR has the following structure:

• MyLibrary
  • AndroidManifest.xml
  • assets/
  • libs/
    • myJar.jar
  • classes.jar
  • R.txt
  • res/

The problem is that myJar.jar classes get merged in classes.jar by Proguard (when I run without Proguard it doesn't happen). When I run my application project with AAR as a dependency I get "Multiple dex files define" errors regarding the myJar.jar classes that are also in classes.jar. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

An issue was opened for this in Android Open Source Project.