[aerogear-dev] [Android] Google's Gradle build tool and AAR

[Karel Piwko]

Do you know how Gradle stands for IDE support? Does it simplify Android
Development for Eclipse/JBDS/IntelliJ?

Karel

On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:48:25 -0400
Summers Pittman <secondsun at gmail.com> wrote:

> Y'all,
> 
> In the last release we had some trouble at the end.  People were having 
> trouble building aerogear-android because the android-sdk-deployer 
> project had a couple of "small" problems. Mainly there was an issue with 
> one of the deployers submodules (and it had to be disabled by hand) and 
> the deployer itself isn't compatible with maven 3.1.0.  I don't want to 
> include in the build instructions for aerogear "download this old 
> version of Maven and then edit the pom of this third party project".
> 
> The easiest way to remove our dependency on the deployer is to start 
> using Google's gradle build system.  The Android SDK has packages for 
> deploying the necessary repositories so that our build can consume them 
> and we can use the gradle wrapper to keep our users from having to 
> install yet more software.
> 
> So where does this leave maven?  Unfortuantely it is still necessary to 
> build the apklib file (as far as I know), but it won't be necessary to 
> actually USE the project anymore.
> 
> wdyt?
> 
> Summers
> 
> 
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