How to Show Dependencies Tree in Android Studio

How do I show dependencies tree in Android Studio?

The image in the question doesn't really show a tree, just a flat list of everything compiled into the app.

Are you using Gradle?

If so, you can truly see the "tree" by running a Gradle command

Android documentation: View the dependency tree

GUI

1. Select View > Tool Windows > Gradle (or click Gradle icon in the tool windows bar).
2. Expand AppName > Tasks > android and double-click androidDependencies. After Gradle executes the task, the Run window
   should open to display the output.

CLI

(produces tree-like list)

./gradlew app:dependencies

and/or

(produces flat list)

./gradlew app:androidDependencies

Where app is your module's name

And you get something like so

+--- MyApp:mylibrary:unspecified
|    \--- com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.3.1
|         +--- com.android.support:animated-vector-drawable:25.3.1
|         |    \--- com.android.support:support-vector-drawable:25.3.1
|         |         \--- com.android.support:support-v4:25.3.1
|         |              \--- LOCAL: internal_impl-25.3.1.jar
|         +--- com.android.support:support-v4:25.3.1
|         |    \--- LOCAL: internal_impl-25.3.1.jar
|         \--- com.android.support:support-vector-drawable:25.3.1
|              \--- com.android.support:support-v4:25.3.1
|                   \--- LOCAL: internal_impl-25.3.1.jar
\--- com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.3.1
     +--- com.android.support:animated-vector-drawable:25.3.1
     |    \--- com.android.support:support-vector-drawable:25.3.1
     |         \--- com.android.support:support-v4:25.3.1
     |              \--- LOCAL: internal_impl-25.3.1.jar
     +--- com.android.support:support-v4:25.3.1
     |    \--- LOCAL: internal_impl-25.3.1.jar
     \--- com.android.support:support-vector-drawable:25.3.1
          \--- com.android.support:support-v4:25.3.1
               \--- LOCAL: internal_impl-25.3.1.jar

For specific flavor use the command

gradle app:dependencies --configuration <flavorNameRuntimeClasspath>

Note: If you run ls (or dir on Windows) in that folder, and don't see gradlew (or gradlew.bat), you are in the wrong folder.

How do I view all the dependencies of a library?

Let's suppose you want to get dependencies graph of your app module. In your terminal/command line, run the below command:

./gradlew :app:dependencies

Moreover, if you want to store the dependency graph generated by above command, just do:

./gradlew :app:dependencies > dependencies.txt

Please note that the dependencies.txt file will be generated and stored in your current working directory.

Android Flavor Specific Dependency Tree

You can get the dependecy tree for a particular flavor and build type combination by running:

./gradlew app:dependencies --configuration <flavorAndBuildType><classpath>

Classpath can be either RuntimeClasspath or CompileClasspath depending on if you're interested in compiletime or runtime dependencies.

An example of getting the runtime dependency tree for the paid version of an app, hitting the production servers and building it for debug would be:

./gradlew app:dependencies --configuration paidProdDebugRuntimeClasspath

Android - How to export dependency tree to a file?

I would try:

./gradlew :app:dependencies > ~/Desktop/output.txt

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