Hi Chathura, There could be problems since we don't have the support for gradle with in AF ( even if Jenkins supports it through a plug-in). Supporting Gradle might require some work ( and note that as far as I know we haven't thought of doing it now either). does majority of android developers use gradle ?. If its not the case I would propose going with what we have for now ( maven/ant) as the first cut and then figure out ways to improve on it. what do you guys think? regards Ramith
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Chathura Dilan <chathu...@wso2.com> wrote: > Hi Harshan, > > Are there any difficulties to move to Gradle? I think they have all the > dependencies including latest Android L preview > > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Harshan Liyanage <hars...@wso2.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Currently I'm involved in using maven to create & build Android / >> Cordova-Android application projects as a part of MEAP project which will >> be used to create & build mobile application projects using AppFactory. >> There is a android-maven plugin [3] & a maven-archetype [4] which can be >> used for building & creating android applications. Using maven in android >> application projects has been explained well in [1]. >> >> However the maven plugin, archetypes & android-maven dependencies in >> central maven repo are not provided by Google as mentioned in [4] & [5]. >> These are provided by android-maven developer community. But they do not >> regularly update maven central repo with latest Android sdk dependencies >> [6]. Last dependency was released on August 2012 for Android 4.1.1.4 (sdk >> 16). Hopefully Google might provide android dependencies in future with >> Gradle based build system [9]. >> >> *Issue : *Lack of android dependencies in maven central repo >> >> *Solutions :* >> >> 1. Using maven-android deployer tool [7] to install android sdk >> dependencies to local m2 repo. This tool has been widely used by the >> developers who uses maven to build android projects. Then by installing >> these dependencies into wso2 nexus repo we could build Android maven >> projects. This solution will allow us to use above mentioned maven-android >> plugin & archetype with slight modifications. >> >> 2. Using maven to invoke shell commands to create android project & build >> it using Ant (default Android build system till Android switches to Gradle) >> >> I'm expecting to use first solution. Please provide your suggestions >> regarding this. >> >> *References* >> >> [1]. http://books.sonatype.com/mvnref-book/reference/android-dev.html >> [2]. >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5253029/why-arent-the-android-sdk-jars-in-any-maven-repository >> [3]. https://code.google.com/p/maven-android-plugin/ >> [4]. http://stand.spree.de/wiki_details_maven_archetypes >> [5]. >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/maven-android-developers/ZG9z6kQuPYo >> [6]. >> http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cgav%7C1%7Cg%3A%22com.google.android%22%20AND%20a%3A%22android%22 >> [7]. https://github.com/mosabua/maven-android-sdk-deployer >> [8]. http://developer.android.com/tools/building/index.html >> [9]. >> http://www.gradleware.com/android/gradle-the-new-android-build-system/ >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Lakshitha Harshan >> Software Engineer >> Mobile: *+94724423048* >> Email: hars...@wso2.com >> Blog : http://harshanliyanage.blogspot.com/ >> *WSO2, Inc. :** wso2.com <http://wso2.com/>* >> lean.enterprise.middleware. >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > Chatura Dilan Perera > *(Senior Software Engineer** - WSO2 Inc.* * [Mobile])* > www.dilan.me > -- Ramith Jayasinghe Technical Lead WSO2 Inc., http://wso2.com lean.enterprise.middleware E: ram...@wso2.com
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