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I have a currently running Android application which uses OpenTok SDK version 2.8. that is 'opentok-android-sdk-2.5.0.jar'.

Due to some known issue, i have to update it to the latest version of OpenTok that is opentok-android-sdk-2.8.1.

In the previous version of the OpenTok SDK, there used to be one *.jar file and two *.so files. However, in this version the *.jar and *.so files have been replaced by a single *.aar file.

What i tried: I removed both *.so files fron JNILibs directory and the *.jar file from the libs directory of the project structure. Further i removed the below line from gradle.build of apps:

compile files('libs/opentok-android-sdk-2.5.0.jar')

As specified in the below link, under the read me section:

https://github.com/opentok/opentok-android-sdk-samples

I added the below two lines in my gradle.build under app in th respective positions: That is, under 'repositories' i added:

maven { url  "http://tokbox.bintray.com/maven" }

And then under 'dependencies' i added:

compile 'com.opentok.android:opentok-android-sdk:2.8.+'

And then when i Sync my project, i get the below error:

Error:(61, 13) Failed to resolve: com.opentok.android:opentok-android-sdk:2.8.+
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Further i also tried:

How to manually include external aar package using new Gradle Android Build System

But i was still getting errors like only jar files can be added like that.

I also tried: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpuJPoXkFG4

If anyone has upgraded from any *.jar library to *.aar library, kindly specify the procedure here or send me a reference for the same. Thanks in advance.

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I'm building an ionic app using the https://github.com/songz/cordova-plugin-opentok

I managed to upgrade the android sdk to 2.8.1 by creating the following build-extras.gradle

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.0.0'
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        maven {
            url  "http://tokbox.bintray.com/maven"
        }
    }
}


android {
    compileSdkVersion 23
    buildToolsVersion "23.0.1"

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 16
        targetSdkVersion 23
        versionCode 8
        versionName "2.7.0"
    }

    lintOptions {
        abortOnError false
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile 'com.opentok.android:opentok-android-sdk:2.8.1+'
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:design:23.0.0'
}

This might help you out. in my plugin.xml I also added this line in my android platform section

<framework src="build-extras.gradle" custom="true" type="gradleReference" />

as suggested by https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/guide/platforms/android/index.html#extending-buildgradle

However this didn't seem to copy the file correctly, so I had to manually place build-extras.gradle in my ./platforms/android directly (same directory as my build.gradle)

Hope this helps.

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