How to import Android AAR dependencies using Maven in Eclipse?

android, android-maven-plugin, eclipse, maven

Solution

At this present moment in time the m2e-android plug-in cannot support AAR files because the ADT development team have not added AAR support to the Eclipse ADT plug-in.

This is an outstanding issue:

https://github.com/rgladwell/m2e-android/issues/177

Problem

Note : I am using Maven 3.2.2, Eclipse Luna This is the dependency in my pom.xml that uses Android AAR archive ``` <dependency> <groupId>com.github.gabrielemariotti.cards</groupId> <artifactId>library</artifactId> <version>1.7.3</version> <type>aar</type> </dependency> ``` I can see the classes installed in target/classes folder. But when I try to use the classes in the AAR, Eclipse is showing class cannot be resolved. I have no problem using classes added by JAR dependencies in pom.xml Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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