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libgdx does not recognize Facebook Android SDK

I added Facebook's Android SDK to my libgdx project, in the Android-specific sub project, by following the official tutorial. I did this by adding Facebook SDK as a dependency in my build.gradle like this:

project(":android") {
    apply plugin: "android"

    configurations { natives }

    dependencies {
        compile project(":core")
        ...
        compile 'com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.6.0'
    }
}

This succeeded apparently since the Facebook SDK was downloaded and put into the Android project:

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However, in the AndroidLauncher class, when I try to import Facebook SDK related classes (step 6 in the above tutorial):

import com.facebook.FacebookSdk;

I get a compilation error:

The import com.facebook cannot be resolved

What I tried so far:

  • Refreshing Gradle dependencies
  • Performing a Build Clean
  • Restarting Eclipse

What am I doing wrong?

Solution

  • The problem was that Eclipse cannot use aar files. To fix this, I followed the required steps to fix that, as described in the above link.

    Update

    After fixing this issue, my app was crashing due to a "class not found" error. So eventually I gave up on eclipse, and moved to android-studio. No errors now!