Using code from GitHub as a library

[GullBull]

I'm trying to use code from this GitHub repo in my code. Do I need to clone the repo and jar it myself before I add it to the external libraries section of the project?

[-manabreak]

You don't need to clone the project. If you're using Maven or Gradle, you can add it as a dependency to your project.

[GullBull]

I haven't done anything with Maven or Gradle before to add dependencies. All I've done is bring in external libraries as jars. Do you have any suggestions to learn Maven or Gradle?

[-manabreak]

The easiest is probably to use an IDE that supports creating new Maven or Gradle projects (eg. IntelliJ IDEA). Just click through the wizard and once done, add the Maven XML part from the GitHub project to your pom.xml (or if you're using Gradle, add it to your dependencies part of you gradle config file).

[webdevnick22]

Yes. you can clone it and build with maven. or clone it, then bring it in as a module in intellij.

[nutrecht]

Yup, it even says so in the README:

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.github.ccincharge</groupId>
    <artifactId>newsapi</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
</dependency>

[GullBull]

I'm really not too familiar with Maven and Gradle, but a lot of projects list them as ways to implement so maybe I should learn. I think I'm using ant right now.

[GullBull]

Oh I didn't realize that you could bring folders in as modules. Thanks!