title: spring boot in android studio
body: <p>What is the correct way of using spring boot in android studio build.gradle?
  This is what I am using-</p>
  
  <pre><code>apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
  buildscript {
  repositories {
      mavenCentral()
      mavenLocal()
      jcenter()
  }
  dependencies {
      classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:1.4.3.RELEASE")
  }
  }
  android {
  compileSdkVersion 24
  buildToolsVersion "24.0.1"
  defaultConfig {
      applicationId "com.example.prateek.businesscardrest"
      minSdkVersion 15
      targetSdkVersion 24
      versionCode 1
      versionName "1.0"
      testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
  }
  buildTypes {
      release {
          minifyEnabled false
          proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
      }
  }
  packagingOptions {
      exclude 'META-INF/DEPENDENCIES.txt'
      exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE.txt'
      exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE.txt'
      exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
      exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
      exclude 'META-INF/DEPENDENCIES'
      exclude 'META-INF/notice.txt'
      exclude 'META-INF/license.txt'
      exclude 'META-INF/dependencies.txt'
      exclude 'META-INF/LGPL2.1'
      exclude 'META-INF/spring.schemas'
      exclude 'META-INF/spring.tooling'
      exclude 'META-INF/INDEX.LIST'
      exclude 'META-INF/spring.handlers'
  }
  configurations {
      all*.exclude module: 'classworlds'
      all*.exclude module: 'commons-logging'
      all*.exclude module: 'httpclient'
      all*.exclude module: 'maven-artifact'
      all*.exclude module: 'maven-artifact-manager'
      all*.exclude module: 'maven-error-diagnostics'
      all*.exclude module: 'maven-model'
      all*.exclude module: 'maven-project'
      all*.exclude module: 'maven-settings'
      all*.exclude module: 'plexus-container-default'
      all*.exclude module: 'plexus-interpolation'
      all*.exclude module: 'plexus-utils'
      all*.exclude module: 'wagon-file'
      all*.exclude module: 'wagon-http-lightweight'
      all*.exclude module: 'wagon-provider-api'
  
  }
  }
  dependencies {
  compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
  androidTestCompile('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2', {
      exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-annotations'
  })
  compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.1.0'
  compile 'com.android.support:design:25.1.0'
  compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:25.1.0'
  compile 'org.springframework.android:spring-android-rest-template:2.0.0.M3'
  compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.3.2'
  compile 'org.springframework:spring-web:3.1.1.RELEASE'
  compile 'com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:2.0.1'
  testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
  // tag::jetty[]
  compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web") {
      exclude module: "spring-boot-starter-tomcat"
  }
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But this generates an error-
  Error:Failed to resolve: org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web</p>