I'm trying to bring **SignalR** into my **Android Studio** project.

I successfully followed the tutorial on [getting started with SignalR](http://www.asp.net/signalr/overview/getting-started/tutorial-getting-started-with-signalr), so now I have a working `Hub`. The client in that tutorial is javascript, and I got it working ok in a web page (in Chrome) on PC AND on my Android phone over WiFi on my home LAN.

Then I went to go get the Android java client working. I already had an Android app project in Android Studio, which I want to make talk to that working `Hub` as a test, as the next step.

I downloaded the official Microsoft [java client for Android](https://github.com/SignalR/java-client), as a zip.

Then I extracted it and loaded it as a project into Android Studio. It builds with no errors.

Problem #1: This project only gives me an AAR, not a JAR. I have figured out how to use a jar in Android Studio, so if there's a way to create a jar at this juncture, I can probably make this work.

At this point I included the dependencies into my app project. The readme.md says to:

> 
> Add the signalr-client-sdk.jar, signalr-client-sdk-android.jar gson
>  library as a gradle dependency to the project.
> 
> 
> 

so I tried to follow that as closely as possible. Here's from my build.gradle:

```cs
compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.3.1'
compile files('libs/signalr-client-sdk.jar')
compile files('libs/signalr-client-sdk-android-release.aar')

```

Problem #2: Having imported the aar as a module into my app project in Android Studio, it still does not see the necessary namespace to make the primary statement work. Here is the primary statement (the hello world of SignalR in Android, compiler-wise):

```java
Platform.loadPlatformComponent(new AndroidPlatformComponent());

```

At first it wasn't picking up anything, then it picked up `import microsoft.aspnet.signalr.client.Platform;` for `Platform`. It still does not have a clue what to `import` for `AndroidPlatformComponent`, so I'm stuck until I can get past this.

As you know there are a lot of files in Android Studio, and I don't want to just spew them all out here before I know which files you want to see. I'll add them as an edit if you tell me which files you want to see.