On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Ted Neward <ted.new...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah. Don’t use Maven. > > > > I don’t know if Android artifacts are published to the Maven repos yet; > I’ve not heard anyone as of yet doing so, and I think doing so might be in > violation of Google’s license agreement that you clicked when you installed > the SDK tools. (IANAL.) And considering that most of the Android tool set > still comes from Google and is versioned pretty strongly and obviously, what > advantage do you see to Maven, particularly since Maven insists on being its > own build tool and would conflict in many ways with the Ant task that Google > gives you? > Maven does have uses for Android projects. For example, for SlideME, I had the case of needing to release different variations of the client (community, regional variations, etc). Maven, with the plugins from Masa, was a very nifty way to shift around the resources files, do interpolations of variables in the Android manifest, signing with different keys and pushing all the different generated variations of the apk to a maven repo. > > > You would probably have much better results using Apache Ivy, if you really > wanted build-time dependency management, but even then that’s only going to > be for the non-Google artifacts. > > > > Ted Neward > > Java, .NET, XML Services > > Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing > > http://www.tedneward.com > > > > > > *From:* android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto: > android-develop...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Nando Android > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 02, 2010 9:51 PM > *To:* android-developers@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* [android-developers] Maven and Android > > > > Hi all, > > Is there any documentation out there that shows examples on how to start > Android projects with Maven? > > I like Eclipse to develop and debug but I like to use Maven to create the > project and control which jars are on the repository and need to be fetched > from the Internet. > > Any suggestions on this? > > Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Shane Isbell (Founder of ZappMarket) http://twitter.com/sisbell http://twitter.com/zappstore http://zappmarket.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
