@Xavier, here is a skeleton project I quickly put together. Do let me know 
if you need more details:

https://github.com/curioustechizen/studio-apt-android-dep-issue

On Tuesday, 18 November 2014 12:08:51 UTC+5:30, Xavier Ducrohet wrote:
>
> Would you might making a very very simple project that shows the issue? 
> That'll help me make sure we can make something that works.
>
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Kiran Rao <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Bump! Any ideas on this? Or perhaps this is not the right forum for this 
>> question?
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, 13 November 2014 18:37:03 UTC+5:30, Kiran Rao wrote:
>>>
>>> I am developing an annotation processor using Android Studio. My project 
>>> has three modules:
>>>
>>> *anno-api*- This contains that API - i.e, just defines the annotations 
>>> and some constants
>>> *anno-processor* - This has a compile dependency on anno-api and it 
>>> contains the class extending AbstractProcessor
>>> *sample* - This demonstrates how to use the annotations.
>>>
>>> The setup is working just fine. Now, I want to do better validation in 
>>> my Annotation Processor. For this, both anno-api and anno-processor need to 
>>> have access to the Android API.
>>> For example, consider this annotation. It has a method of type Class but 
>>> I want to restrict this to just sub-classes of Activity.
>>>
>>> @Retention(RetentionPolicy.SOURCE)
>>> @Target(ElementType.TYPE)
>>> public @interface AwesomeActivity {
>>>     Class<? extends android.app.Activity> base();
>>> }
>>>
>>> How do I go about doing this? *How do I tell anno-api and 
>>> anno-processor to depend on Android classes?*
>>>
>>> Here are the things I tried:
>>>
>>> 1) I tried making both anno-api and anno-processor as Android Library 
>>> projects.
>>> 2) I tried adding android.jar in the lib/ folder of the anno-api project 
>>> and adding a dependency to the JAR file in build.gradle.
>>>
>>> In both cases the I end up with compile errors in my Annotation 
>>> Processor. Basically it refuses to recognize the javax.annotation.* and 
>>> other such classes. I suspect that at this point, only the classes present 
>>> in android.jar are recognized.
>>>
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