Is there an estimated timeline around moving everything to run on Gradle 2.0? I know it's still pretty new but I wondering how much it affects the Android plugin. I noticed a few things were depreciated from the API in Gradle that I was using myself but otherwise my non-Android plugin dependent gradle scripts have made the update easy enough. I'm wondering if I should backport my code to work on 1.12 or just wait until the Android plugin supports 2.0. Right now I'm developing a gradle plugin to use Apportable's alternative NDK and we plan to ship publicly in the next quarter.
To give you some background on my project, in our current SDK, we have our own custom built build system for making APKs that is a full replacement for ANT and the NDK makefiles (we call the android tools when need on our own). We had to stop using ANT and the NDK makefiles 3 years ago because we were too limited in what we could do and in our ability to extend everything. Our current build system is python based and was originally based on a forked version of scons but now sits on ninja (to compile and make things fast). It also calls Xcode to build xcode projects for shared code with iOS. We are currently working on a new product that will provide some huge advantages for Android devs over the Google NDK. Unlike our current product, it's mostly targeted at Android native devs that are trying to share code with other platforms and smooth out the headaches and burdens of maintaing cross platform native code and not be entirely focused on at iOS devs porting to Android from iOS like our current product. As part of that, we were debating on refactoring our current build system but we came to conclusion that we shouldn't break the UX flow of how you build Java for Android (it's only the native side which is what were are trying to improve). The new build system with Gradle opened some doors for us to make this happen (thank you to whomever at Google had the idea to switch off ANT). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "adt-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
