Adding Aspose Cloud SDK to the Android Studio

You can add AsposeCloudSDK to your Android Studio project as an external Aspose Cloud Maven dependency or as an external library via Gradle files.

1. Aspose Cloud Maven Dependency

You can add AsposeCloudSDK to your Android Studio project by adding following lines of code in your app/build.gradle file. (Please note that these modifications go in the build.gradle file in your module’s directory, not the build file in the project root directory). First, set up the repository where it can find the dependency.

repositories {
    maven {    url 'http://repository.aspose.cloud/repo/'    }
}

and then add the dependency itself by adding this line to your dependencies block:

dependencies {
    ...
    compile 'com.aspose:aspose-cloud-android:1.0.0'
}

This is a recommended approach because it won’t mess in your project structure.

2. Adding the library via Gradle files

As an alternative approach, following is the complete process  of adding AsposeCloudSDK as an external library to your project. 1. Create new project via Android Studio creator and name it HelloWorld 2. Here is the original project structure created by Android Studio:

HelloWorld/
    app/
        - build.gradle  // local gradle config (for app only)
        ...
    - build.gradle // global gradle config (for whole project)
    - settings.gradle 
    - gradle.properties
    ...

3. In root directory (HelloWorld/) create new folder: /libs in which we’ll place our external libraries (this step is not required – only for keeping cleaner project structure). 4. Download AsposeCloudSDK from Github, unzip it and paste asposecloudsdk folder in newly created /libs folder. Here is the new structure of our project:

HelloWorld/
    app/
        - build.gradle  // local gradle config (for app only)
        ...
    libs/
        asposecloudsdk/
            - build.gradle // local gradle config (for library only)
    - build.gradle // global gradle config (for whole project)
    - settings.gradle 
    - gradle.properties
    ...

5. Edit settings.gradle by adding your library to include. Whole settings.gradle should look like below:

include ':app', ':asposecloudsdk'
project(':asposecloudsdk').projectDir = new File('libs/asposecloudsdk')

6. In app/build.gradle add our library project as an dependency:

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.3'
    compile project(":asposecloudsdk")
}

7. That’s all.  asposecloudsdk library should be available in your project.

Error:duplicate files during packaging of APK

In case you face this error, just add the following lines of code in your app/build.gradle file under android block.

packagingOptions {
    exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE.txt'
    exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE.txt'
    exclude 'META-INF/DEPENDENCIES'
    exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
    exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
}

Working with Aspose APIs

1. Sign up with Aspose Cloud service at: http://dashboard.aspose.cloud/
2. Create a new App and get your App SID and App Key.
3. Call the AsposeApp.setAppKeyAndAppSID(String appKey, String appSID) method in the onCreate() method of your Main Activity and pass your App SID and App Key as arguments to this method.

Now you are ready to work with Aspose REST APIs.

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