http://b.android.com/60650
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 3:00 AM Artem Zinnatullin < artem.zinnatul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Initial problem: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/adt-dev/kUwRYjW0MO8 > > Every developer who tried to setup build of Android project on the CI or > on a new developer machine knows that managing Android SDK dependencies is > a complicated and sad process, especially on the CI. > > "android" app that you can launch from the CLI with "--no-ui" has > complicated set of arguments and each time you have to google how to make > it download what you want to download. > > Previously we used shared system environment on the CI and all projects > used same Android SDK installation so we had to update it once for all > projects. > But last few years container technologies like LXC (Docker) proved that > isolated system environment is a great solution for CI and other tasks. > A lot of CI services like Travis CI, CircleCi and others require us to > download Android SDK dependencies for each build. > And the problem is that each service has its own wrapper over Android SDK > Manager to figure out how to download required versions of dependencies for > the project, potentially, each change in build.gradle can break the build > because you may need to download something from Android SDK Manager. > > *Can you please resolve Android SDK dependencies required for the project > via Android Gradle Plugin?* > > It'll save tons of developers' time on setting up CI environment in > thousands of projects all over the world. Also, when somebody in team > changes build-tools/etc in the project other members has to update their > dependencies when they see that build is no more buildable, that's > frustrating (though AS now tries to automate it). > > Yes, there is a licence that you have to agree with each time, but, you > can require manual { agreeWithLicence true} or something like this because > basically it's the same kind of checkbox in the UI. > And of course, nobody does it manually on the CI. Even if Android Gradle > Plugin will prompt to answer "yes" in the CLI/Android Studio when some > dependency needs to be updated but will manage downloading dependencies > itself it would be fantastic (will just add a workaround to automate "yes" > for the CI). > > // There is sdk-manager-plugin > <https://github.com/JakeWharton/sdk-manager-plugin> from Jake, but it's > not maintained for a long time and it can not download some of the > dependencies for different reasons. > > -- > 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 adt-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 adt-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
