External dependencies support

[mehfuzh]

In Android Studio inside build.gradle, if I add the following lines for couchbase library and click grade sync icon from toolbar menu:

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.2.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:design:22.2.1'
    compile 'com.couchbase.lite:couchbase-lite-android:1.1.0'
}

It will automatically download the necessary libraries for couchabse-lite.

NativeScript package.json should support similar external libraries via its dependencies tag. In this way, when a plugin is added to the project or nativeScript android project is being created, It will download the external library like Android Studio.

Resources:
http://rominirani.com/2014/08/19/gradle-tutorial-part-6-android-studio-gradle/
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Gradle-Build-and-Gradle-Sync

[x4080]

@mehfuzh How to use Android support design BTW ? Have to manually create metadata from jar ? Because I tried just added the dependencies is not working

[Plamen5kov]

because this is platform specific it's done through the include.gradle file and not through the package.json.

fixed with: 77ab0cc

Now you can use an include.gradle file to make this additional configuration. You can read about the include.gradle file and how to implement it inside a plugin from the docs:
https://docs.nativescript.org/plugins#includegradle-specification