Create FAT AAR in Android Studio
What is an AAR file?
AAR files can contain Android resources and a manifest file, which allows you to bundle in shared resources like layouts and drawables in addition to Java classes and methods.
It is useful in the following situations:
- When you’re building multiple apps that use some of the same components, such as activities, services, or UI layouts.
- When you’re building an app that exists in multiple APK variations, such as a free and paid version and you need the same core components in both.
What is a FAT AAR file?
Create a single AAR artifact from multiple Android Libraries or own custom AAR / jar file.
Steps to build FAT AAR libraries from Gradle :
Step 1: Add kezong/fat-aar-android at the project and app build.gradle
Step 2: Do changes in AndroidManifest.xml and app-level build.gradle
Comment LAUNCHER activity from AndroidManifest.xml and do the below changes :
Step 3:
Click on Build > Make Module. Then, in the project folder > build > outputs > aar, we will find the FAT AAR containing all the libraries we’ve specified. To check this, unpack the AAR.
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