Dependendant project's settings.gradle is not read

Question

I have an Android Project where I have multiple dependencies. The structure of my project is as follows:

• I have a library project called libA
• I have another library project called libB which is dependent on libA. I specify the dependency in a settings.gradle file that defines libA's project dir etc. I can independently build libB using this file.
• I have libC which depends on libB. I have a settings.gradle file here too and that defines the project dir. etc. for libB. When I run the build from here it gives me an error saying that libA was not found while building libB.

My question is this : Is the settings.gradle of libB not read at all when building libC? Is there a way to make it read that settings.gradle file?

Answer 1

You should have a structure like this:

root
  build.gradle
  settings.gradle
  libA
    build.gradle
  libB
    build.gradle
  libC
    build.gradle

In settings.gradle

include ':libA' , ':libB'  , ':libC' 

In libB/build.gradle

dependencies {
    compile project(':libA')
}

In libC/build.gradle

dependencies {
    compile project(':libB')
}