[android-developers] Don't mix Eclipse and Ant
Sorry for this rant, but I have a number of complaints with the Android
build system I'd like to air.
Firstly thank you Android build system engineers for adding incremental
building to the build system, this is a hard problem and your work here is
appreciated.
Now on to the major issue I just spent the evening debugging:
When you combine eclipse with the command line Ant build you may get
runtime errors in your APK!
If you are using eclipse and it can't build one of your library projects
because the java source has compilation errors Eclipse will go ahead and
make class files anyway! The methods in these class files will be filled
with junk like:
throw new Error("Unresolved compilation problem: \n");
If you then go ahead and build the same project with Ant in the
commandline, the new incremental checks in the Android Ant build script
will see that it is already been compiled, skip that step and use these
class files in the generated APK. Resulting in runtime errors.
Jacob Abrams
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[android-developers] Don't mix Ant and Eclipse!
Firstly thank you Android build system engineers for adding incremental
building to the build system, this is a hard problem and your work here is
appreciated. Now on to the major issue I just spent the evening debugging:
When you combine eclipse with the command line Ant build you may get
runtime errors in your APK! If you are using eclipse and it can't build one
of your library projects because the java source has compilation errors
Eclipse will go ahead and make class files anyway! The methods in these
class files will be filled with junk like:
throw new Error("Unresolved compilation problem: \n");
If you then go ahead and build the same project with Ant in the
commandline, the new incremental checks in the Android Ant build script
will see that it is already been compiled, skip that step and use these
class files in the generated APK. Resulting in runtime errors.
Jacob Abrams
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[android-developers] Serious dependency bug in Android Ant build system
Has anyone else seen this bug? https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=31242 I'm just trying to make sure I'm not the only one who is seeing this, and if not then please everyone help lobby Google to fix this ASAP to save engineers from spending hours of wasted time debugging problems that only happened because the Ant script built a broken APK that doesn't accurate reflect the source code! Jacob Abrams -- 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
