cannot extract android-sdk-preview.jar

[jurschreuder]

I tried to use the .jar file in Android Studio, but it seems it cannot extract the zip.
Is android-sdk-preview.jar ready to use?
Am I doing something wrong?
I don't know, hope you can help me :)

Cheers Jurriaan

[wiktor]

Although jar files are zips, they should not be extracted.

Just add this jar as a external library.

[jurschreuder]

Thanks for your very fast reply!

I tried to do just that, adding it as a file dependency, but I get this error when building:
Error:: error reading /libs/estimote-sdk-preview.jar; error in opening zip file

Just to make sure I wasn't doing anything wrong (haven't programmed Android in a while and Android Studio changes very fast) I tried adding gson-2.2.4.jar. That works just fine. It builds and I can view the content of gson-2.2.4.jar (little triangle appears, I can access it as a folder).

Maybe this is an issue with Android Studio? I can try installing Eclipse.

Thanks again for your fast reply!

[wiktor]

Which version of Android Studio you are using?
Can you tell me how do you add library?

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:02 AM, jurschreuder notifications@github.comwrote:

Thanks for your very fast reply!

I tried to do just that, adding it as a file dependency, but I get this
error when building:
Error:: error reading /libs/estimote-sdk-preview.jar; error in opening zip
file

Just to make sure I wasn't doing anything wrong (haven't programmed
Android in a while and Android Studio changes very fast) I tried adding
gson-2.2.4.jar. That works just fine. It builds and I can view the content
of gson-2.2.4.jar (little triangle appears, I can access it as a folder).

Maybe this is an issue with Android Studio? I can try installing Eclipse.

Thanks again for your fast reply!

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[jurschreuder]

I use Android Studio 0.5.1

I copied the jar in the libs folder.

right-click on project -> Open Module Settings -> Dependencies -> + -> File Dependency -> estimote-sdk-preview.jar

and in build.gradle my dependencies look like this:

dependencies {
compile files('libs/gson-2.2.4.jar')
compile files('libs/estimote-sdk-previes.jar')
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:+'
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
}

I used to only manually add the bottom line, but now it seems like this line is already there in 0.5.1 and Android Studio also automatically ads the "compile files('libs/estimote-sdk-previes.jar')" line, although I would think it would also work with just the bottom line.

Also, when I right-click on the jar and select "add as library", it displays the following menu, which it didn't display with gson:

[wiktor]

If I read it correctly:

"compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])" - means that to include all jars in a directory

so you don't need those two:
compile files('libs/gson-2.2.4.jar')
compile files('libs/estimote-sdk-previes.jar')

[jurschreuder]

Yeah I think so to.
Ah yeah they might be conflicting.... let's try removing one of them...
No that's not it, still not working, same error. Although I think I remember these things conflicting in older versions of Android Studio/Gradle yes. But gson works just fine with both, and removing one of them did not help :(

Is this .jar confirmed to work with Android Studio? Then at least I will know that it's not a problem with the .jar file. Or maybe that I can just fix it by using Eclipse.

[jurschreuder]

He wiktor!

Just in case this was an Android Studio problem (I wouldn't be surprised), I just installed good-old Eclipse. In Eclipse I get the same error:

Archive for required library: '<my_path>/libs/estimote-sdk-preview.jar' in project '' cannot be read or is not a valid ZIP file.

So I guess it is really a problem with the estimote-sdk-preview.jar file.

[wiktor]

Strange it works for me.

1. There is typo in >> compile files('libs/estimote-sdk-previes.jar')

2. In Android Studio you add external dependency in Project Structure > Modules > Dependencies. There is small plus sign on the bottom and choose "File dependency" and choose a file.

[jurschreuder]

Yeah there was I typo sorry my bad. But I deleted all lines except the include ['*.jar'] one, when you suggested the thing about the duplicates, and still the same error.

About the plus sign, I did just that. Add a file dependency.

It's strange that I get the same error in Eclipse.

Can you maybe email me a version of the estimote-sdk-preview.jar file that you have in a working project? That would help me out a lot!

I am on a Big Mac right now, because I am also developing the exact same thing for iOS at the same time. I am going to boot up some other operating systems and see what they think of the .jar file...

[wiktor]

contact me at wiktor at estimote dot com

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:30 AM, jurschreuder notifications@github.comwrote:

Yeah there was I typo sorry my bad. But I deleted all lines except the
include ['*.jar'] one, when you suggested the thing about the duplicates,
and still the same error.

About the plus sign, I did just that. Add a file dependency.

It's strange that I get the same error in Eclipse.

Can you maybe email me a version of the estimote-sdk-preview.jar file that
you have in a working project? That would help me out a lot!

I am on a Big Mac right now, because I am also developing the exact same
thing for iOS at the same time. I am going to boot up some other operating
systems and see what they think of the .jar file...

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[jurschreuder]

I downloaded the file the wrong way (by right clicking the estimote-sdk-preview.jar link and select download). This actually saved an HTML page with the filename estimote-sdk-preview.jar, so this was actually just a .html file with a .jar extension.

Stupid mistake.
Thread closed.

[raarlac]

@jurschreuder thank you!!! I was doing the same haha