How do I open the Android Mail project in Android Studio?

Question

I have cloned the AOSP email client and have attempted to open it in Android Studio. However, I must be doing something wrong, because I cannot build the project and all that shows up in the project tree is the following:

Answer 1

These packages rely heavily on system packages. Hence it is difficult to get it into Android Studio. However if you are looking into an open source email client, I would recommend you look into K9 Mail. It's an open-source mail client. EDIT:

You could try using this method to variable success rates: From the AOSP root run command in a terminal:

make idegen && development/tools/idegen/idegen.sh

Then open Android Studio > Open project > Select android.ipr generated.

You will run into many dependency issues though. Note: It might be worth giving eclipse a try. Read this.