Git ignoring Android Studio project libs folder-CodePudding

In my current project, I've added a libs folder inside my project's app directory. inside the libs, I've added an SDK in .aar format. But currently, the problem is that, when I push all my updates into a git repo, all of my updates pushed perfectly, except that libs folder. But I need to push that libs folder to the git repo. How I will able to do that. Here is my .gitignore file -

# Built application files
*.apk
*.aar
*.ap_
*.aab

# Files for the ART/Dalvik VM
*.dex

# Java class files
*.class

# Generated files
bin/
gen/
out/
#  Uncomment the following line in case you need and you don't have the release build type files in your app
# release/

# Gradle files
.gradle/
build/

# Local configuration file (sdk path, etc)
local.properties

# Proguard folder generated by Eclipse
proguard/

# Log Files
*.log

# Android Studio Navigation editor temp files
.navigation/

# Android Studio captures folder
captures/

# IntelliJ
*.iml
.idea/workspace.xml
.idea/tasks.xml
.idea/gradle.xml
.idea/assetWizardSettings.xml
.idea/dictionaries
.idea/libraries
.idea/misc.xml
# Android Studio 3 in .gitignore file.
.idea/caches
.idea/modules.xml
# Comment next line if keeping position of elements in Navigation Editor is relevant for you
.idea/navEditor.xml
.idea/

# Keystore files
# Uncomment the following lines if you do not want to check your keystore files in.
#*.jks
#*.keystore

# External native build folder generated in Android Studio 2.2 and later
.externalNativeBuild
.cxx/

# Google Services (e.g. APIs or Firebase)
# google-services.json

# Freeline
freeline.py
freeline/
freeline_project_description.json

# fastlane
fastlane/report.xml
fastlane/Preview.html
fastlane/screenshots
fastlane/test_output
fastlane/readme.md

# Version control
vcs.xml

# lint
lint/intermediates/
lint/generated/
lint/outputs/
lint/tmp/
# lint/reports/

What should I do now to resolve this issue?

CodePudding user response：

You can try:

git add --force <path_to_libs>

or add in .gitignore:

!<path_to_libs>

the "!" makes git do not ignore libs, as by default it is ignoring.

CodePudding user response：

And how exactly is that .gitignore file related to Android Studio ??

The only way to provide a local AAR dependency is a local flatDir repository.