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Posts tagged continuous-integration
Deploying the android libraries into your maven repository
0278 days
Maven is a fantastic build tool, and a great addition to anyone developing on the android platform, however one of the first hurdles that people often stumble upon, is when their project involves one of the SDK libraries, such as Google Maps.
You’ll most likely see something like this when you attempt to first compile the project :
Automating android application signing and zipaligning with maven
0617 days
This is something that has had me tearing my hair out for a few days now, I was pretty much border-line braveheart-ing my screen….
I’ve recently been on a little drive to try to maven-ize my projects. All had been going well until I needed to sign and zipalign my APKs. This post will help you conquer that barrier with the use of some maven plugins.
When using ant, I was able to simply enter keystore details into build.properties and just call “ant release”. Unfortunately that approach doesn’t carry across to maven, and you have to provide some more configuration.
Android; Continuous integration, all made lovely with Maven
2915 days
Lets face it, the eclipse ADT plugin is great for getting an android application up and running quickly, but if you want an easier way to get libraries, and a continuous intergration environment for robust automated testing and building, then maven is the way to go.
IntelliJ have recently released the Early Access Program to their version X of IDEA, this comes with Android support in the community edition, meaning we’re no longer bound to using eclipse for Android development!
