LibGDX: How to add Google Mobile Vision API to a LibGDX project?

Question

Maybe the answer is simple, however I could not find anything that could help me yet. Basicaly, I want to add the Google Vision API to my project. I tried this by putting

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-vision:9.0.0+'

in build.gradle dependencies in the Android module, like in this tutorial. This did not work (maybe I should write it somewhere else? I can't figure it out). Now there are many inspections shown in this build.gradle. There is said that there components cannot be applied to groovy.lang.Closure.

I have installed the Google Repository. And I've completed that tutorial, which is not LibGDX, and everything works fine there.

So how to make it work with LibGDX?

Answer 1

The solution is to add:

compile 'com.google.apis:google-api-services-vision:v1-rev20-1.22.0'

into root build.gradle (located in the root of your project) under android dependencies and not to module specific one.

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

    configurations { natives }

    dependencies {
        compile project(":core")
        ........
        compile 'com.google.apis:google-api-services-vision:v1-rev20-1.22.0'
    }
}