Maven and adding JARs to system scope

Question

I have a JAR in my Android project and I want it to be added to final APK. Okay, here I go:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.loopj.android.http</groupId>
        <artifactId>android-async-http</artifactId>
        <version>1.3.2</version>
        <type>jar</type>
        <scope>system</scope>
        <systemPath>${project.basedir}/libs/android-async-http-1.3.2.jar</systemPath>
    </dependency>

But when I am running mvn package I am getting a warning:

[WARNING] Some problems were encountered while building the effective model for **apk:1.0
[WARNING] 'dependencies.dependency.systemPath' for com.loopj.android.http:android-async-http:jar should not point at files within the project directory, ${project.basedir}/libs/android-async-http-1.3.2.jar will be unresolvable by dependent projects @ line 36, column 25

And in the final APK there are no JARs.

How do I fix that?

Answer 1

I don't know the real reason but Maven pushes developers to install all libraries (custom too) into some maven repositories, so scope:system is not well liked, A simple workaround is to use maven-install-plugin

follow the usage:

write your dependency in this way

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.mylib</groupId>
    <artifactId>mylib-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1</version>
</dependency>

then, add maven-install-plugin

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.5.2</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>install-external</id>
            <phase>clean</phase>
            <configuration>
                <file>${basedir}/lib/mylib-core-0.0.1.jar</file>
                <repositoryLayout>default</repositoryLayout>
                <groupId>com.mylib</groupId>
                <artifactId>mylib-core</artifactId>
                <version>0.0.1</version>
                <packaging>jar</packaging>
                <generatePom>true</generatePom>
            </configuration>
            <goals>
                <goal>install-file</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

pay attention to phase:clean, to install your custom library into your repository, you have to run mvn clean and then mvn install