How to translate Gradle library to allow you to add it on your Eclipse project.

how_translate_gradle_project_for_Eclipse

Hi all,

yesterday I had to deal a difficult question, that is how to load a Gradle library project on Eclipse without third party tools or similar.
As you already know, Eclipse is unable to load a Gradle project, but there is something that I'm sure someone don't know: Gradle itself can "translate" a project to make it able for Eclipse! Let's see how.

First of all, you have to add an environment variable that point to your Android SDK root folder. Done this, reboot your computer to apply the change. If this wouldn't work, add to the root folder's project a "local.properties" file containing this line: sdk.dir=pathToAndroidSDK.

Second step: you have to open the build.gradle file of the library (the file where you specify all specific attributes of the library) and add this line:

apply plugin: 'eclipse'

Open a terminal and navigate to the root of the project; after, type and execute this command:

gradlew eclipse

When the process is finished without errors, inside the library folder there will be these three files:

.classpath file;
.project file;
.settings folder.

Now you can load the project in Eclipse! But before yell "HOORAY!", you have to do all the necessary to make the project error free.

At the end, you can reference the "translated" project to your application/library project.

I hope this will help.