Adding assets to the generated .aar from Kotlin Multiplatform

Multiplatform
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Hi everyone,

I am currently developing a multiplatform library project for Android and iOS using Kotlin 1.4.0 and I want to include the assets folder in the generated aar. I place the assets folder in the expected directory (same level as the AndroidManifest.xml) but in the final package (debug or release aar) there are only three items:

  • AndroidManifext.xml
  • R.txt
  • classes.jar

Is it possible to add the “assets” or “res” folder to the aar with the Kotlin Multiplatform at the moment?

Thanks

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Of course it is! When you create an Android target the source sets for resources and res are created in src/main since you have to add the Android plugin as well! You can align the sources with the rest of the K/MPP ones with:

android {
    sourceSets.all {
        java.srcDirs(project.file("src/android${name.capitalize()}/kotlin"))
        res.srcDirs(project.file("src/android${name.capitalize()}/res"))
        resources.srcDirs(project.file("src/android${name.capitalize()}/resources"))
        manifest.srcFile(project.file("src/android${name.capitalize()}/AndroidManifest.xml"))
    }
}

This way everything will be in src/androidMain/... :slight_smile:

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Thanks a lot @lamba92 !