Question

When I build jar for Android library project in Intellij Idea it puts inside all dependent jar that I use in the project and classes.jar

but as I think all that stuff is unnecessary and jar can contain only compiled classes e.g.

Is that possible to compile clean jar in Idea? or should I use ant or something else?

Answer 1

You cloud compile the project using intelliJ, then locate the class files, the go to their root folder, then its parent folder and use jar cvf foo.jar -R <root>/ in a shell.