I just started Android Development yesterday and just finished with my first Activity. On running it, I'm getting errors like
**Error:(4, 37) error: package android.support.design.widget does not exist**
As I never post without it, I've already done plenty of searching on this. Basically, what I've understood is that it couldn't find that Widget Package on my PC. So, do I have to download it? If yes, then how?
People on internet had similar problem with Packages and almost every post has different answer to this. Some say change your Gradle File others say Update your Studio (have done it).
Any kind of explanation or bit of knowledge with the solution would be highly appreciated. I'm a kind of geek who want to get concepts and basics clear. So, it would be great if you include the reason and technicality behind this too with your answer. Thanks. :)
It's a design library for Android apps development and as #Dominique pointed have a look at that page and copy paste that compile 'com.android.support:design:22.2.0' line in your project gradle file and press the sync button. Your project will sync in a few moments and the design library will be downloaded. Now you can use this library and there won't be any errors.
No, in Java "package" is not a "library" or a "piece of software" (like it is in some other languages). Package is what classes belong to - you might think of packages as directories containing Java files (it is a simplification, but it works). In Java libraries are packaged into (usually) "jars" (those jars usually contain classes divided into packages), so what you need to download is "jar".
So, first thing you need to check is: what library contains the package, and configure your IDE accordingly. The package in question belongs, I think to the so called android support library, which you can install using the SDK tool.
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This is my first StackOverflow question, and I'm also a Grade 12 student, so apologies if it is a stupid one - feel free to let me know if it is, however, after numerous hours searching the internet, I can't find an answer to this.
this is not homework help.
Background
I am currently writing a program in Netbeans that will deal with large COVID datasets, and I'm looking to use some external libraries to make operations easier. The ones I've looked at are
https://github.com/jtablesaw/tablesaw and https://github.com/nRo/DataFrame.
However, I have only ever used "Java with Ant", and both of these GitHub's only mention using the library through Maven dependencies in the pom.xml file. I have never used Maven, and I am very unfamiliar with Build Tools in general. As when I was introduced to Java, my teacher instructed me to use Java with Ant. That being the case, any time I have used an external library before I have simply added the .jar files into my library folder and used
import foo.bar; or import foo.*; to use the libraries.
My question
Is there a way for me to use either of these libraries without switching build tools? For example, download the source and make the .jar's in a way that isn't overly tedious, so that I can use the libraries the same way I am used to? Or, perhaps something I'm missing that allows me to download them in that format? If not, seeing as almost every Github library I find instructs me to use it through Maven dependency, should I stop using Java with Ant altogether and start learning how to write programs using Maven?
Any insight is greatly appreciated. If this has already been answered, feel free to link the answer and sorry for cluttering up the forum. Thanks.
From one of the Maven websites you can download the libraries and use them as normal. First find the artifact page, for example using mvnrepository.com as shown below, or you could use the https://search.maven.org/:
Find the relevant page by searching for the artifact, then once there you can choose the version:
Then click on "View all" to see the artifact jar files:
Then lastly right-click the file you need and choose save:
I'm facing a problem while developing a library with Android Studio.
The concept is to create one aar (MyLib) which is depends on other aar.
At the end, I want to hide everything from the other aar, and only exposed 'MyLib'.
So I found this tool: 'com.kezong.fat-aar' which give me the ability to create one big fat aar from 'multiple aar'.
Then I have created a ProGuard to only include (-keep) some classes of 'MyLib'.
It works but I can still access to classes defined in the 'multiple aar'.
I've made some online research and I can't find any solution.
Now I wonder if it's even possible to achieve what I want because 'MyLib' should access to the 'multiple aar' (dependencies) but I don't want that the user or client can see them.
Sorry for my bad english...
Do you have any clue or information to help me ?
Thanks a lot.
I am beginning at Java GUI, so I ask you professional coders to be understading towards to my humble question.
So, I have been coding this small Java project. I came across a problem, which is to query a Json file. During my quest over the internet looking for an answer, I stumbled upon this project on github:
https://github.com/json-path/JsonPath
Which proved to be the solution for my problem. Everything I need to be able to search for specific nodes on a json file is there, hard coded.
My beginner question: Is that possible to include this 'JsonPath' in my existing project? The IDE is Apache Netbeans 10.0 and the project is a Java SE application.
Thanks in advance!
I tried searching Services->Maven repository->Find...
I happened to find this package but I have no clue how to add the package. Also, I am not sure if its possible to add it to my project.
At first I thought doing something like "com.jayway.jsonpath" to my main class would solve my problem - But obvisouly it didn't, that's why I'm asking you guys for some guidance.
You're going to want to use a dependency management tool like Gradle or Maven first. This gives you a place to put all of the third-party dependencies like this one in your project. (Note: how to use or install either of those tools is outside of the scope of this question.)
Then, you just need the Maven coordinates. Luckily the project has those coordinates available.
For a project I am building a Java GUI from which queries can be sent to Neo4j, to make it easier to do particular analyses. To get this all working, I have downloaded a .jar folder containing all relevant classes (neo4j-javadocs-2.1.7-javadoc.jar). I have loaded the library through the project->properties->libraries->Add JAR, but I can't seem to import the classes I want to use in my GUI (neither automatically nor manually).
I am dabbling in Java, so it is probably a basic oversight that I am making, but with the help from tutorials online and trying different commands (like entering the path of the .jar file) I can't get it working. One of these tutorials is specific on the Neo4j library, so I am very confused. That tutorial is written for Eclipse, instead of NetBeans which I am working with, but as far as my knowledge goes that shouldn't matter for the commands
I don't have enough reputation to post direct images, but this link contains a screenshot. If more information is required, let me know. http://i.stack.imgur.com/lUytK.png
Additionally, when I normally add a class that is not imported, there is an automatic function to import the class. This option is missing for my specific class, so maybe I added the library in an incorrect way?
http://i.stack.imgur.com/QeDX4.png
Edit: Issue resolved thanks to a colleague that came in. Apparently I loaded the Javadoc where I should have loaded to individual classes from the lib directory.
It really should work.
Try to save all changes. NetBeans reparses the classes when you save them.
Try to build your project manually from command line using Ant build script
Use Maven, Ivy or Gradle for Dependency Management then you can depend on the Neo4j artifacts.
For sending queries to the server you actually don't need Neo4j artifacts.
You can also use the JDBC driver, see http://neo4j.com/developer/java
I'm trying to play with Scala in Android but the Manifest doesn't recognizes my main/only-so-far activity.
I did the set up according to this blog post: http://novoda.com/2009/10/17/scala-on-android/ and everything works until i try to run my app, moment in which the logcat saids that it just doesn't find my Activity. the thing is all i can found about this problem is this: http://tiliman.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/android-development-with-scala/. According to this post the manifest doesn't recognizes the Activity because it ain't a Java file, so he creates a Java class that extends from Scala, which i don't think is a good solution at all.
What do i have to do to get started? I think i'm not missing anything.
According to previously asked questions, there seems to be no solution, i mean no one provided one. But i can't believe that using something like sbt is the only way to make full and substantial Android apps in Scala. Truly, no solution at all?
UPDATE: As for the answer given, i'll give SBT a try. But i still think that is necessary a more straightforward way to do it. In a Google Dev Fest i attended, Tim Bray practically said that you could jut make Android apps in Scala or in Java, naturally and without problems: i don't see how this fits with Manifest doesn't recognizing a Scala activity.
The page you're looking at is pretty old. I'd recommend using AndroidPlugin, which is built on top of SBT (https://github.com/jberkel/android-plugin). It handles building, testing, deploying to the emulator/device, etc.
I've got this building my android app, and the only java file I have is the autogenerated R.java.
With SBT you can also generate IDEA and Eclipse configurations, so you should be good to go.
The solution posted here uses the AndroidProguardScala plug-in, in which if the name of the scala file matches the name of the main activity, there is not problem to have your main activity written in scala.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/11084146/1287856