Gradle build failing : Task 'jar' not found in root project 'spotify-web-api-android'

Question

I am trying to use the 'spotify-web-api-android' library by compiling and building a jar. Instructions to generate the jar have been provided, but are failing for me.

• What I want : Build the jar file successfully
• What is the problem - I am not familiar to Gradle and am getting the error : Task 'jar' not found in root project 'spotify-web-api-android'.

• Steps followed:

  • Downloaded spotify (see screenshot)

  • Changed directory to the downloaded git

  • Executed command : ./gradlew jar

Link to api and instructions : https://github.com/kaaes/spotify-web-api-android/blob/master/README.md

Instructions to generate jar:

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/kaaes/spotify-web-api-android.git
2. Build: ./gradlew jar
3. Grab the jar and put it in your project. It can be found in build/libs/spotify-web-api-android-0.1.0.jar

Answer 1

I think those build instructions are out of date.

Try the ./gradlew assemble instructions instead, using the aar dependency