Hey So, as you know, Google switched from supporting Eclipse to supporting their IntelliJ based Android Studio IDE, and in an effort to keep up, we followed them, somewhat. One thing we didn't do is update our project structure so it works similar to an Android Studio one, and there's a reason we didn't do that.
The reason is that Android didn't do that. If you autogenerate an Android project from the command line, even if you use Gradle (which should be the default, but still isn't for some reason), you still get the old eclipse-style structure that we're currently using. I've been making tiny changes so that we can use Cordova as a library, but then there's these development problems that I really don't have the answers to: 1. Where do tests live for plugins? People who contribute want JUnit tests to make sure the native code works. I want them as well, but our current plugin system has no support for this and people don't seem super interested in changing this when I have off-list private conversations, which is why I'm bringing it up here. 2. Should plugins be AAR/Projects instead of just code? Honestly, I think this would make more sense than trying to guess what the structure of a Java project is. I want to support users regardless of how they create their Android project instead of just saying that using the Cordova CLI is the one and only way, and I think people who use this in Enterprise environments would agree with me. Although, I haven't explicitly asked anyone, which is why I'm bringing this up here. 3. If we keep the current way of loading Android code as plugins, how do we support all the IDE structures? Currently cordova-lib only supports the current Android project structure, and if I was to extend it, Android Studio would have to be its own platform, which isn't correct, since it's just a different project directory structure. I'm interested in what people think in this, and whether we should bother with these use cases, or just say that everyone has to use the old structure until Google changes their minds, or whatever. Thoughts? Joe