I'm trying to build my apps using ANT and I'm failing miserably after I included the google-play-services-lib library project.
Step 1
I set up a reference to the library project in my project.properties file:
android.library.reference.1=/path/to/google-play-services_lib
Step 2
I ran these commands inside the google-play-services_lib folder:
android update lib-project --path .
ant clean
ant release
BUILD SUCCESS!
Step 3
Back to my project folder
ant clean
ant release
ERROR
BUILD FAILED
/android/tools/ant/build.xml:460: /path/to/google-play-services_lib resolve to a path with no project.properties file for project /my/project-folder
There IS a project.properties in both folders, naturally. The one in google-play-services_lib contains this code:
target=android-8
android.library=true
I'm obviously missing something that's right there in front of me and I'd really appreciate your help. Thanks!
Try changing the android library reference to a relative path (relative to the current directory) instead of an absolute path.
e.g.
android.library.reference.1=../../../relative_path/to/google-play-services_lib
I had the same issue when developing a cordova project. I copied the google-play-services-lib project folder to the same directory as the project directory and set the reference as
android.library.reference.2=google-play-services_lib
In my case I had reference to the cordova project as well, hence android.library.reference.2