[aerogear-dev] Android: Eclipse issue with the "Push"

Matthias Wessendorf matzew at apache.org
Sat Jun 22 11:20:29 EDT 2013


App works fine!
On Jun 21, 2013 5:17 PM, "Matthias Wessendorf" <matzew at apache.org> wrote:

> Thank you! :)
>
> that did the trick.
>
> I filed two new JIRAs to cover the "issues" in the guide/docs
>
>
> -Matthias
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com>wrote:
>
>>  On 06/21/2013 10:46 AM, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  On 06/21/2013 10:31 AM, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Eclipse + Maven + Android is a series of long sighs best avoided.
>>>> The idea with the Android project is we declared the compile time
>>>> dependencies for the application and they SHOULD be dropped into your /libs
>>>> folder after running `mvn dependency:copy`.  After that Eclipse SHOULD pick
>>>> them up correctly.
>>>>
>>>
>>>  ah... ok. the "mvn dependency:copy" is missing on the README (will
>>> file a JIRA/PR soon).
>>>
>>>    It isn't in the README, it is in the Eclipse doc.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear.org/blob/master/docs/guides/GetStartedAndroidEclipse.asciidoc#getting-the-source-with-git
>>>
>>> I don't want to muddle up the README with the n! ways of getting
>>> AeroGear running ;).
>>>
>>
>>  ah... OK. I missed that since I had the build already working, and
>> directly went to the "Importing the project into Eclipse" section :)
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The second half of this is making sure you download the Android support
>>>> library.
>>>>
>>>
>>>  Ok, not really sure what you mean here
>>>
>>>    It is under the Android Tools submenu of the context menu in Eclipse.
>>>
>>
>>
>>  OK, now this resolves fine for the "support" bits, e.g:
>>
>>  import android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity;   <==== GOOD NOW :)
>>
>>
>>  Let me file a JIRA to include the "Support Lib" on the Eclipse guide.
>>
>>  but still, this does not resovle:
>>
>>   import android.app.Fragment;
>>
>>    Hrm... It needs to be building against 4.0+ to resolve that.  It
>> doesn't hurt backwards compatibility as long as developers use the right
>> libraries APIs.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Could you post the content of your libs directory?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  pluto:aerogear-android matzew$ ls -la libs/
>>> total 4104
>>> drwxr-xr-x   5 matzew  staff      170 Jun 21 16:24 .
>>> drwxr-xr-x  17 matzew  staff      578 Jun 21 16:24 ..
>>> -rw-r--r--   1 matzew  staff    13662 Jun 21 16:24 gcm-client-3.jar
>>> -rw-r--r--   1 matzew  staff   189285 Jun 21 16:24 gson-2.2.2.jar
>>>  -rw-r--r--   1 matzew  staff  1891110 Jun 21 16:24 guava-13.0.1.jar
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  now.... the google collection dependencies are resolved.
>>>
>>>  Only that these are now continuing issues:
>>>
>>> import android.app.Fragment;
>>> import android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity;
>>>  as well as the "import com.google.android.gms.gcm.GoogleCloudMessaging;"
>>> (and some others)
>>>
>>>    You need to use the Google API's build target instead of the Android
>>> 2.3.3 build target.  The docs on aerogear.org (obviously) havn't been
>>> updated for push yet ;)
>>>
>>
>>
>>  Hrm "Google APIs [Android 2.3.3]" does not help to resolve "Fragment"
>> or "GoogleCloudMessaging" .
>>
>>
>>  For fun, I changed to "Google APIs [Android 4.2.2]". That resolved
>> almost all issues, _except
>> "import com.google.android.gms.gcm.GoogleCloudMessaging;". That guy is
>> still a problem   :-)
>>
>>    Oh ok then :)
>>
>> GoogleCloudMessaging is provided by the Android SDK.  You need to import
>> the Google Play Services project into Eclipse and reference the library
>> from the AG project.  The Services project is in
>> $ANDROID_HOME/extra/google/google-play-services.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   -Matthias
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 06/21/2013 06:10 AM, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>  I did a download of the latest Android SDK
>>>> (adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20130522), and did follow our instructions here:
>>>> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-android/blob/push/README.md
>>>>
>>>>  I did the maven-sdk-deployer etc, all good. the branch was compiling
>>>> with Maven. Great!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Now, with Eclipse, I did follow these instructions:
>>>>  http://staging.aerogear.org/docs/guides/GetStartedAndroidEclipse/
>>>>
>>>>  But once I finished these steps, I am getting compiler errors. For
>>>> instance on the Pipeline.java, I am getting these issues:
>>>>
>>>>  import android.app.Fragment;
>>>> import android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity;
>>>> import com.google.common.collect.HashMultimap;
>>>> import com.google.common.collect.Multimap;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  While I think that the android.** related import issues are most
>>>> likely related to the fact that this is perhaps now wrong (2.3.3):
>>>>
>>>> http://staging.aerogear.org/docs/guides/img/android_eclipse_import_005.png
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  But the Google Collections are also not resolving.
>>>>
>>>>  I guess the "Import" in Eclipse is not really reflecting the
>>>> description of the guava dependency in the pom.xml file.
>>>>
>>>>      Besides the google collections, I also noticed that other classes
>>>> (like "com.google.android.gms.gcm.GoogleCloudMessaging") are not being
>>>> resolved.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Is there a way that all these "required" dependencies are picked up
>>>> automatically, by the Eclipse IDE?   Or do I have to import all
>>>> dependencies, by hand ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Thanks!
>>>> Matthias
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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