Migrating from Eclipse to Android Studio

I have created new projects in Android Studio, but have yet to migrate an Eclipse app project to Android Studio. This documents what I did to get a clean build after importing the project from Eclipse following these instructions.

First I made sure that my Eclipse project ran and debugged successfully to my Galaxy Tab 2.

Then I moved the project to a separate Workspace folder

Firing up Android Studio, I imported the Eclipse project from the duplicate folder

Of course there were tons of errors

Mostly due to invalid imports and their methods in the source code.

For example: import org.apache.http.client.*

My eclipse project used imported external Jars

So I went outside Android Studio into Windows file manager or explorer and created a "libs" folder inside the "app" directory.

I copied my external Jars to the "libs" folder and then edited the build.gradle file like so:

dependencies {

compile files ('libs/acra-4.2.3.jar')

compile files ('libs/httpmime-4.1.1.jar')

}

Other errors involved encoding

So I also added the following to the build.gradle file

compileOptions {

encoding "UTF-8"

sourceComaptibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_7

targetComaptibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_7

}

Now the errors disappeared.

However, I also did a bunch of other fiddling around, so I don't know what actually fixed the errors.

Just so you know.

Now the fun begins with a Run Debug to the actual Galaxy Tablet, so stay tuned.

By the way, the Eclipse project was no slouch. This is the production app on Google Play: WAR.