I think the proposal is great. Our gradle is pretty big, and it does make sense to just do the defaults. +1 (personally speaking) to this – will save soo much of my time as I depend on this for my react-native-cordova-plugin adapter. Your changes will make life so much easier ☺
How do the plugins break? Will plugins have to make change? In a way, it may make sense to do this with big changes at Google I/O – that way, we just have 1 breaking change, and plugin authors have to look at the changes just once. On 5/17/16, 1:55 PM, "Joe Bowser" <bows...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hey > >I know people have been waiting for this for a very long time, but I wrote >up a proposal to change the project so it's an Android Studio project. >Given that Android Studio is on 2.1.1, I think it's time we moved forward >and changed things around. > >Proposal PR is here: https://github.com/cordova/cordova-discuss/pull/45 > >Branch where Proof of Concept work is being done is here: >https://github.com/infil00p/cordova-android/tree/studio_project_structure > >The main roadblock to doing this, of course is migration of plugins and >custom code, as well as assets, but I think Android developers would >welcome this change because we're acting more like a regular, normal >Android project again and not some old, weird legacy/special case thing. >I've already did some exploratory work with the old cordova-android-studio >version of cordova-common, and installing plugins works fine depending on >what version of Cordova you're using. > >The other thing that has me stuck is all the functionality in the gradle >files. I would love to rip out a lot of the stuff we autogenerate in >there, such as the settings.gradle file that caused me a huge headache >earlier today when I tried to get importing to work. It'd also be good to >have a documented process on how we set the Application ID, since I can't >quite figure out how we do that, and I know other people are struggling >with that as well. > >This would be slated for Cordova-Android 6.0, and hopefully Google IO >doesn't have too many surprises that break us. > >Joe
