Facebook Android SDK for Maven & Gradle

Current port is based on the v3.18.0 available at https://developers.facebook.com/android/
The API is packaged as an aar and available from Maven Central Repository for use with Maven or Gradle.

###How to use

####Maven

The aar dependency requires the use of the maven-android-plugin 3.8.1+ with maven 3.1.1+ :

<dependency>
  <groupId>fr.avianey</groupId>
  <artifactId>facebook-android-api</artifactId>
  <version>3.18.0</version>
  <type>aar</type>
</dependency>

If you want to use a newer version of the android-support-v4 dependency, exclude the old one with this line :

<dependency>
  <groupId>fr.avianey</groupId>
  <artifactId>facebook-android-api</artifactId>
  ...
  <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
      <artifactId>support-v4</artifactId>
      <groupId>com.google.android</groupId>
    </exclusion>
  </exclusions>
</dependency>

You might want to add the jar dependency as well to support code completion in Eclipse ADT. Adding the jar will result in DEX errors at build time as the Facebook API classes will be added twice to the generated apk. To solve the problem, build your project from command line and reference the jar dependency in the m2e (Eclipse only) Maven profile :

<profiles>
  <profile>
    <id>m2e</id>
    <activation>
      <property>
        <name>m2e.version</name>
      </property>
    </activation>
    <dependencies>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>fr.avianey</groupId>
        <artifactId>facebook-android-api</artifactId>
        <version>3.18.0</version>
        <type>jar</type>
        <exclusions>
          <exclusion>
            <artifactId>support-v4</artifactId>
            <groupId>com.google.android</groupId>
          </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
      </dependency>
    </dependencies>
  </profile>
</profiles>

####Gradle

Add the following dependency to your build.gradle

dependencies {
  compile 'fr.avianey:facebook-android-api:+@aar'
  // other dependencies
}

If you want to use a newer version of the android-support-v4 dependency, exclude the old one with this line :

configurations.all {
  exclude group: 'com.google.android', module: 'support-v4', version: 'r7'
  // other configurations
}