aar target?

[Anton Smirnov]

Hey, guys.

I'm using precompiled AAR to add some features to Chromium.

As far as i understand "proper" way of adding third party dependency is:

1) add it as dependency (DEPs file)

2) configure to build it while building Chromium (BUILD.gn file).

Since all android libraries are precopiled i was unable to find anything like "android_aar" target to build aar from the sources.

Does Chromium provide target like this?

If it's not: the target is expected to do what gradle does - build AAR from the sources and config.

Will it work to implement the target by just running gradle to build it and pick up the outputs?

[Anton Smirnov]

> all android libraries are precopiled

I've meant "all current android libraries used in Chromium are precompiled".

[David Turner]

I'm not sure I understand what you want, but:

1) If you have a pre-compiled .aar library, you can use it with the android_aar_prebuilt gn template. Look at the codebase for many examples of its use.
(just drop the library.aar file in a repository that is retrieved through DEPS, and a corresponding BUILD.gn that defines its target).

2) If you want to compile from sources, an .aar is not useful,  i.e. just define an android_library / android_assets rule for it.

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Anton Smirnov <d...@antonsmirnov.name> wrote:

> all android libraries are precopiled

I've meant "all current android libraries used in Chromium are precompiled".

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