Re: [aerogear-dev] [Android] Google's Gradle build tool and AAR
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(a)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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