Compile MPAndroidChart lib with jar output instead of aar - gradle

Question

How do I compile the MPAndroidChart library as jar instead of an aar? If I run gradle assembleDebug it will generate me an aar, but I see in the old MPAndroidChart distributions that they already provided a jar dependency.
I didn't find anything realted to gradle compile instructions in the readme file. Also "gradle tasks" didn't help me.
Any help here?
Thanks.

Answer 1

This question has been asked a while ago, but this is a reference for future developers.
Create an eclipse project, with the exact package structure that you see on the Android MPAndroidChartLib (https://github.com/PhilJay/MPAndroidChart/releases)
convert the project to a Maven project (right-click, configure, convert to maven project.
replace the generated pom.xml with the following :
<project
xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.github.mikephil</groupId>
<artifactId>MPAndroidChart</artifactId>
<version>1.4.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>MPAndroidChart</name>
<description>A simple Android chart view/graph view library, supporting line- bar- and piecharts as well as scaling, dragging and animations</description>
<url>https://github.com/PhilJay/MPAndroidChart</url>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<build>
<sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.3</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<properties>
<jdk.version>1.7</jdk.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.android</groupId>
<artifactId>android</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
<version>4.1.1.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.12</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
<artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
<version>1.9.5</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<issueManagement>
<url>https://github.com/PhilJay/MPAndroidChart/issues</url>
<system>GitHub Issues</system>
</issueManagement>
<licenses>
<license>
<name>Apache License Version 2.0</name>
<url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html</url>
<distribution>repo</distribution>
</license>
</licenses>
<scm>
<url>https://github.com/PhilJay/MPAndroidChart</url
<connection>scm:git:git://github.com/PhilJay/MPAndroidChart.git</connection>
<developerConnection>scm:git:git#github.com:PhilJay/MPAndroidChart.git</developerConnection>
</scm>
<developers>
<developer>
<name>Philipp Jahoda</name>
<email>philjay.librarysup#gmail.com</email>
<url>http://stackoverflow.com/users/1590502/philipp-jahoda</url>
<id>PhilJay</id>
</developer>
</developers>
</project>
right-click on the pom and click on maven install
you'll find the jar under : /target