android - Sync shared library projects/modules with its source

Question

I am learning to build Android shared libraries that can be used with different projects. I got a few questions regarding this subject. Before I go into the questions, below is what I have done so far:

• Create a library project
• Create another application project and import above library as a module

My questions are:

• Is the library project's code automatically synchronized with the one imported into application projects? How it can be achieved?
• If not, what else I can do to make sure I just need to update the shared library once?

I am using Android Studio IDE.

Thank you,

Answer 1

Ah yes, this can be very helpful in many cases. You can do the following to achieve this.

Let's say you have two projects - MyApplication and MyLibraryDemo containing the library module libmodule with the following paths:

MyApplication - "/../AndroidStudioProjects/MyApplication"

MyLibraryDemo - "/../AndroidStudioProjects/MyLibraryDemo"

libmodule - "/../AndroidStudioProjects/MyLibraryDemo/libmodule"

And let's say you are trying to use libmodule in MyApplication. Then, in your settings.gradle of your MyApplication project, do this

include ':app', ":libmodule"
project(':libmodule').projectDir = new File(settingsDir, '../MyLibraryDemo/libmodule')

You may have to make relevant corrections, but I hope the idea of linking another module is clear.

All the best :)