Android Studio transition and using sub libraries / sharing libraries

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I am trying to transition all our projects from Eclipse to Android Studio (Finally decided i had to do it..!) but i am fighting seriously with the way how Android Studio / gradle works - in regard to using external library projects.

Until now in Eclipse - we used to have all the dependent projects in the same workspace and they where 'shared' amongst all projects which were under development.

That made it extremely nice to do changes on the external changes and commit them separately to their own SVN repos - while the projects using them - to take advantage of the changes without thinking.

That goes specifically to one library - our own framework which we use for all android projects and it is constantly being developed, altered, partially reworked and used by several people.

But then came Android Studio... the problem is that say if i have an example project with 10 sublibrary dependencies, including our framework - Android Studio with physically COPY all files into a subfolder of the main root project - loosing all the capabilities to 'commit' changes later being done to the sub libraries - to their own SVN repos.

I've tried pretty much everything, i think i've read everything :) but crap - nothing seems to 'fix' my work case..

I tried to checkout one sublibrary in the already checked out root folder of the root project and tried to import it into it - but ofcourse Android Studio says 'library already exists' - so that doesn't work. Even if it did... the library itself has its own deps and what i saw is that Android Studio will decouple them upon import and put them at the same level in the root project.. which completely messes everything up.

So my question is - even if i understand this is no longer possible - is there any EASY way i can at least COMMIT BACK to the SVN repo of the sublibrary from within the root owning project - using Android Studio (by easy i mean from the UI directly without needing to mess with manual console merge hazzle...)

I can't understand how anyone has not solved this yet - i am sure everyone is doing this one way or another?

Could someone share a good practice way of 'doing' it? :)

THANK YOU!

asked 22 secs ago

Martin Kovachev

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Android Studio transition and using sub libraries / sharing libraries