how to include lvl-license project with android gradle project

Question

I have an android gradle project it's now not compiling because it's looking for license classes so i tried to include them as following in my build.gradle:

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '*.jar')
    **compile project(':lvl-licensing').projectDir = new File(projectDir, '../lvl-licensing/library'**)
}

problem is that for some reason i still get this:

A problem occurred evaluating project ':myproject'.
> Project with path ':lvl-licensing' could not be found in project ':myproject'.

how can i include the lvl-license/library project in my project using gradle? why is it complaining? I do have the project in that folder with build.gradle and I can compile that lvl-license/library project separately.

thanks

Answer 1

You have to add the lvl-licensing file to your settings.gradle file as well. Also, that library can't be outside the root directory of your project; it looks like you're trying to place the library in a sibling directory to your project.

If you put the library under your project root, you don't need to do the gymnastics with the path in your compile project statement.