Hey Since we've been running into numerous issues with Google updating their tools already, I think it's time that we update the new project structure to work with Android Studio more easily so that we can integrate JUnit tests for plugins, Library Projects, Gradle dependencies and allow for people to work with Android Studio and Android tools more easily on Cordova projects.
Right now, I have a branch where I'm currently working on stuff. I don't have upgrade scripts working, nor do I have plugin installation working yet, but this will auto-detect the structure and will pick the right builder for the project. You can check it out here. https://github.com/infil00p/cordova-android/tree/StudioProjectCleanup It should be noted that we kinda half-assed the ANT support and that we never properly supported Ant, so I think we should officially drop Ant support in the next version of Apache Cordova regardless. The big elephant in the room is the plugin installer and the fact that plugin authors basically abandon their projects after the 1.0 release. Cordova probably has the most abandonware that I've ever seen. We're going to have to write a LOT of mapper code just to keep the old plugins working since people are using them regardless of their abandonware status, and we don't have the resources to re-write every plugin everywhere and support them. That said, we've used plugins as an excuse to not upgrade for three years now, and I think the problems with this position are going to get a lot worse the longer we pretend that Android Studio doesn't exist. Here's the TL;DR of what I propose: 1. Change project structure so new Cordova-Android platform directories have an Android Studio directory structure. 2. Allow for existing projects to stay the same for the time being and for a project upgrade to be hidden behind a flag 3. Move plugins to work like library projects and possibly AARs down the road. I know that I've written this e-mail before, but it would be great if we could finally move forward with this change before Google breaks more stuff with our current builds. Thoughts? Joe
