android - Gradle looking for aar in wrong project's lib folder -

i have android application made of multiple projects. 1 of projects app project extends application object.

inside build.gradle app project, add other projects dependencies.

i've created new module house sdk (aar) want use. i've added app project's build.gradle.

compile project(':newmodule-thesdk') 

inside libs folder of newmodule-thesdk, have added aar file. we'll call thesdk.aar.

repositories {     flatdir {         dirs 'libs'     } }  dependencies {     compile(name:'thesdk-1.0', ext:'aar') } 

when attempt sync gradle, sync fails because thesdk-1.0 not exist in libs folder of app project. why looking there? why not finding in newmodule-thesdk project?

it appears solving problem required me following in app project's build.gradle.

    repositories {         flatdir {             dirs project(':newmodule-thesdk').file('libs')         }     }