Add pre-built .so files in project using Android Gradle plugin 0.7.3

Question

Well after a long time the support to add pre-built .so files in an Android project has been added in Android Gradle plugin 0.7.3. But unlike me a lot of people are still using the hack/workaround to add pre-built .so files, i.e zip the files using a certain hierarchy and then re-name into a .jar. Below is a step by step guide to how to properly add .so files.

Answer 1

So how you can add the pre-built .so files ?

1) Upgrade your android studio to 0.4.0
2) Replace "distributionUrl=" in gradle-wrapper.properties with "distributionUrl=http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.9-all.zip"
3) Add/Replace your 'buildscript' section build.gradle with:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.7.3'
    }
} 

4)

5) Add the following in your build.gradle:

android {
    compileSdkVersion 18
    buildToolsVersion "18.1.0"

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 10
        targetSdkVersion 18
    }

    productFlavors {
        x86 {
            ndk {
                abiFilter "x86"
            }
        }
        arm {
            ndk {
                abiFilters "armeabi-v7a", "armeabi"
            }
        }

    }


    packagingOptions {
        exclude 'META-INF/DEPENDENCIES'
        exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
        exclude 'META-INF/license.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/notice.txt'
    }
}    

6) Build your project.