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Siddharth Venu
Siddharth Venu

Reputation: 1388

AndroidStudio build.gradle not recognizing a variable in gradle.properties

I created a file gradle.properties in .gradle folder, and added a variable: 

MyOpenWeatherMapApiKey=”b86b2******a2cc***a5fa***ae14c30”

(Some letters starred for security)

And here is my build.gradle file:

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
compileSdkVersion 23
buildToolsVersion "23.0.3"

defaultConfig {
    applicationId "com.example.android.sunshine.app"
    minSdkVersion 15
    targetSdkVersion 23
    versionCode 1
    versionName "1.0"
}
buildTypes {
    release {
        minifyEnabled false
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
    }
}
buildTypes.each {
    it.buildConfigField 'String', 'OPEN_WEATHER_MAP_API_KEY', MyOpenWeatherMapApiKey
}
}

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.3.0'
}

It says 

Error:(21, 0) Could not find property 'MyOpenWeatherMapApiKey' on       
com.android.build.gradle.AppExtension_Decorated@12b151b.`

Why isn't the variable from gradle.properties recognized?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2259

Answers (1)

user35603
user35603

Reputation: 795

It seem the file gradle.properties should be already there. If you are using Android Studio it should be at the bottom after gradle folder and before External libraries. It shouldn't be in .gradle.

Upvotes: 1

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