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I have a JAR library which includes some non source code files in a couple different /src packages (JSON files in this case)
When I add that JAR as a dependency on one of my Android projects and build the apk file, those JSON files are not in the apk or the classes.dex (I ran dex2jar and saw that the files are missing)
How can I tell dex to also include those json files in the output?
AFAIK, a dex file is only designed to hold .class files (and strings). Here is an (old) description of the dex file format. (I was unable to find one on google’s site) http://retrodev.com/android/dexformat.html
When google parses your dependency jars at compile time it only pays attention to .class files, since that is what dependencies are for – classes you want to use in your code which aren’t defined in your code. I’m not sure it even pays attention to anything else you might have in those jars.
The question you want to ask is not how to tell dex to include the json files (it can’t) but how to get those json files into your apk. Unfortunately, if they are stored in a jar I don’t know of a way to do this short of setting up something in ant to manually unpack the jar and move the files yourself. Compile-time jar dependencies are not designed to simply copy files into your project package.