We already have the side effects, his name is
maven-android-sdk-deployer.
So if Gradle will help to get rid off it,
still +1
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Summers Pittman wrote:
> On 08/20/2013 08:35 AM, Karel Piwko wrote:
>> Do you know how Gradle stands for IDE support? Does it simplify Android
>> Development for Eclipse/JBDS/IntelliJ?
> Gradle support is excellent in IntelliJ. Acceptable in NetBeans (by
> NetBeans' standards), and I don't know about Eclipse because Eclipse is
> a pain in the ass with third part build tools. It looks like Spring STS
> is providing a Gradle for Eclipse plugin but I havn't used it.
>
> Until everyone is using Gradle and Android Studio we still will have to
> maintain maven (for apklib) but the golden scenario for starting
> out/green field development will be Gradle.
>
> Now I may get into the woods on this and find out it has a horrible side
> effect, but right now it should simplify the life of a developer.
>
> Summers
>
> PS One important note is that this would be hitching us harder to
> Google's tooling cart and they have been known to dump products in the
> ocean with only a few months of notice.
>> Karel
>>
>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:48:25 -0400
>> Summers Pittman <secondsun@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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