I’m currently developing a few plugin for Android, in Android studio, and have encountered an issue with resources not being found in the end project which implements all the plugins. To deploy a plugin I use gradlew install which generates a .aar, this .aar contains the .jar and a res folder containing the resource files form that project.
Overview of the problem:
Plugin A uses the google com.android.support:cardview-v7:23.2.0 dependency.
Plugin A now has an external library added to the project and can access the cardview res folder.
While compiling Plugin B it uses a resource from Plugin A, which is an instance of the cardview.
This cardview uses a resource file from the res folder in Plugin A.
Plugin B now adds Plugin A as dependency.
Plugin B now has the res folder from Plugin A but still misses resource items from the res folder from the cardview dependency.
The error thrown at this point is:
Error:(8) No resource identifier found for attribute 'cardCornerRadius' in package...
This is because Plugin B uses the cardview as so:
<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
android:id="@+id/card_view"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_width="200dp"
android:layout_height="200dp"
card_view:cardCornerRadius="4dp">
<TextView
android:id="@+id/info_text"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>
The missing card_view:cardCornerRadius isn’t found in my project, because it is never copied over from Plugin A to Plugin B.
My question is as follows:
Is there a way to have my Plugin B understand what card_view:cardCornerRadius is without adding the com.android.support:cardview-v7:23.2.0 dependency to Plugin B, but instead copy it over from Plugin A?