intellij idea - How to add android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout into intelliJidea?

Question

I want to add GridLayout into my android project which is use support library GridLayout v7. I found this thread but maybe a few steps of adding this library did not mention in this paragraph Set up support GridLayout library in IntelliJ.

can anyone explain obviously?

Edit: I have the same problem at this thread

Answer 1

It's late for an answer but here it is, at least for future people looking for a solution on how to add the support library and resources for GridLayout (or ActionBarActivity / AppCompat, see below).

The easiest way is as follows.

1. Make sure you have installed the Android Support Library, from the Android SDK Manager.

2. In IDEA: Open your project, then select File / Import Module

   • select the directory under the SDK: {SDK}extrasandroidsupportv7gridlayout
   • select Import module from external model and Eclipse
   • you can then select Create module files near .classpath files, or choose to put them elsewhere if you can't / don't want to write into your SDK path
   • in the next screen you should see Select Eclipse projects to import and android-support-v7-gridlayout, IDEA will also ask you to reload the project.
   • this should add a module gridlayout [android-support-v7-gridlayout] in your project.

3. Now you have to update your project dependencies to this module for the resources, and add the .jar libraries. Select File / Project Structure

   • select the Modules project settings, and select your project (in the picture below, testv7)
   • select the Dependencies on the right panel
   • add with the + button (on the right panel) a Module dependency... to the android-support-v7-gridlayout
   • similarly, add a Jars or directories... pointing to the {SDK}extrasandroidsupportv7gridlayoutlibs directory (or to the .jar within). If you intend to use the v4 as well, choose {SDK}extrasandroidsupportv7appcompatlibs instead since it contains both v4 and v7 jars
   • your settings should look like this:

And now you should be fine.

For me it was the only way out of the similar problem with the ActionBarActivity, which is solved using the same technique on the {SDK}extrasandroidsupportv7appcompat module. And I did try a few other ways ;)