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Perry HoekstraPerry Hoekstra 

Salesforce Android SDK available for Gradle?

Is the Salesforce Android SDK libraries available through Gradle?  By this I mean something along the lines of:

dependencies { 
    compile 'com.salesforce:smartsync:3.2.0' 
}

in a build.gradle file. Or, do you have to:

1) download the Salesforce SDK from Github
2) Import into Android Studio
3) Build the necessary *.jar files
4) Add the *.jar files to an existing Android Studio projects 'libs' directory

Unfortunately, there is no information on the developer.salesforce.com website that discusses integrating the Salesforce SDK into Android Studio.
thisisnotaprilthisisnotapril
Hi Perry -
Gradle is available for native apps in SDK 3.3. There has been some recent discussion around this on Twitter, from our SDK Product Manager - you might want to check out the thread.
https://twitter.com/oksman/status/664912442711896065
Perry HoekstraPerry Hoekstra
I took a look and unfortunately 'Clone GitHub repo,import the workspace in Android Studio and work' is not what I was looking for and that is what the developer (Jared Banyard) replying to Eugene Oksman also pointed out.  We are looking for a single line dependency such as: 

dependencies { 
    compile 'com.salesforce:salesforce-sdk:3.3.0' 
}

Not having to pull down the entire GitHub repository and manage all the dependencies (such as Cordova which is a bit of pain as I am working natively).
Steve ThistleSteve Thistle
I noticed this old post. Just thought I would point out that as of 5.0.1 Salesforce Mobile Sdk is available as a Maven dependency
https://bintray.com/forcedotcom/salesforcemobilesdk