Include Facebook SDK via Gradle

Developer Tools Nsight Visual Studio Edition
1

The problem is that current FB SDK uses Gradle only. If I’m trying to use it as JAR dependency in .vcproj settings - it can’t import com.facebook.(…) in Java or can’t find classes via JNI.
I tried to use settings.gradle for it and stuck:

include ":facebook"
project(":facebook").projectDir = file("../../../android/facebook-4.3.0")

I got this message:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
  
  * What went wrong:
  No projects in this build have build file 'D:\...\Debug\Android\build\nsight_tegra_build.gradle'.
2

I’m still trying to solve it via --init-script option, but I think that you guys should create feature which will allow to programmer to use his own ‘build.gradle’ file.

upd:
I’m trying something like this in init.gradle:

import com.facebook.android.*;

initscript
{
	allprojects
	{
		buildscript
		{
			repositories
			{
				def androidHome = System.getenv("ANDROID_HOME")
				mavenCentral()
				maven
				{
					url "$androidHome/extras/android/m2repository/"
				}
			}

			dependencies
			{
				classpath group: 'com.facebook.android', name: 'facebook-android-sdk', version: '4.3.0'
			}
		}
	}
}

rootProject
{
	buildscript
	{
		repositories
		{
			def androidHome = System.getenv("ANDROID_HOME")
			mavenCentral()
			maven
			{
				url "$androidHome/extras/android/m2repository/"
			}
		}

		dependencies
		{
			classpath group: 'com.facebook.android', name: 'facebook-android-sdk', version: '4.3.0'
		}
	}
}

But, as I understand, all what was defined in “buildscript” section is local always.

3

Extending Gradle builds will be possible in the next release. Sorry for the inconvenience!

4

Now that AndroidWorks1R2 is out, is there a solution to this problem? How do we include the Facebook SDK in our project?

5

Create nsight_tegra_build_overrides.gradle in your project’s android root folder:

copy
{
	from "$System.env.ANDROID_HOME/extras/google/play_billing/IInAppBillingService.aidl"
	into "aidl/com/android/vending/billing"
}

android
{
	repositories
	{
		mavenCentral()
	}

	sourceSets.main
	{
		aidl.srcDirs += ['aidl']
	}
}

def googlePlayVersion = '7.5.0'

dependencies
{
	compile 'com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.3.0'
	compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-games:' + googlePlayVersion
	compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:' + googlePlayVersion
}

You should remove Google Play Services from this example if you don’t use it:

android
{
	repositories
	{
		mavenCentral()
	}
}

dependencies
{
	compile 'com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.3.0'
}

That’s all!