Using Facebook SDK in Android Studio 0.4.2

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I'm trying to create a new Android application that uses the Facebook SDK, I'm using latests versions for everything, so I'm using Android Studio 0.4.0 with the new Gradle compilation system and the latests version of the SDK downloaded from Facebook. I have tried to follow the instructions in the Facebook Developers page: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/getting-started/facebook-sdk-for-android-using-android-studio/3.0/ with no luck, because the instructions are not for a Gradle based Android Studio. I have also tried to follow the instructions from Scott Barta in using facebook sdk in android studio but no luck, the step 7 when "Sync Project with Gradle Files" is not working, I'm getting this error: Failed to refresh Gradle project. You are using an old, unsupported version of Gradle. Please use version 1.9 or greater. Please point to a supported Gradle version in the project's Gradle settings or in the project's Gradle wrapper (if applicable.) I have tried to modify the build.g…

Accepted Answer

To add to the other answer, add the line `include ':libraries:facebook'` to your settings.gradle and you'll get a new error

```
Gradle 'Android' project refresh failed: Configuration with name 'default' not found.
```

But hey this is what we call progress.

EDI:

Okay now it's working, here is exactly what I did. - I put the FB SDK at the wrong path since the beginning, I was creating a libraries folder at the same level as my app, you should not, it'll not works. - Since Android Studio 0.4.+ the folder name should be libs and not libraries

Create a folder libs at the root of your project (same place where you find the settings.gradle)

Copy the Facebook folder from the Facebook SDK in the libs folder

In your `settings.gradle` add `include ':libs:Facebook'` before the include of your main app

In your build.gradle of your main app add this line in your dependencies

```
compile project(':libs:facebook')
```

Be sure that Android Support V4 is also one of your dependencies i.e:

```
compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:18.0.0'
```

Also here is the build.gradle of my Facebook libs

```
buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.7.1'
    }
}

apply plugin: 'android-library'

dependencies {
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:+'
}

android {
    compileSdkVersion 19
    buildToolsVersion "19.0.0"

defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 15
        targetSdkVersion 19
    }

sourceSets {
        main {
            manifest.srcFile 'AndroidManifest.xml'
            java.srcDirs = ['src']
            resources.srcDirs = ['src']
            res.srcDirs = ['res']
        }
    }
}
```

Now sync gradle and everything should works fine, I'm on Android Studio 0.4.2 + Facebook SDK 3.6.0

Using Facebook SDK in Android Studio 0.4.2

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