[Android-tools-devel] Android Gradle Plugin

[Markus Koschany]

Hi all,

I am currently in the process of packaging the Android Gradle Plugin
plus related tools and the apktool package. Here is a short overview
about the progress.

I work with the following upstream repository:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/base

In addition I also use upstream's Gradle build system. The build files
are located under tools which is not a git repository. I had to clone
the complete Android sources with their repo tool. If someone knows a
better way to obtain build.gradle and settings.gradle for this project,
please let me know. I would like to call the resulting source package

	android-tools-base



Android Gradle Plugin:
======================

I have successfully built the whole tools/base repository including the
gradle plugin. In total 33 jar files are built. However there is still
one important issue left: lombok-ast. I currently have to use upstream's
version.

At the end of this e-mail you can find a list of all resulting jar
files. I'm not 100% sure yet in how many binary packages they should be
divided. Suggestions are welcome. [1]


The following new build dependencies had to be packaged:

* intellij-annotations
  https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-java/intellij-annotations.git

* android-tools-common
  http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.android.tools/common/24.2.3

* android-tools-annotations
  http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.android.tools/annotations/24.2.3

I'm not sure if the new Android maven artifacts are also part of our
current src:androidsdk-tools package. At least we don't ship any maven
artifacts with this package, so we would need to update it anyway. For
the sake of progress I packaged both artifacts from Maven Central and
that works for me.

* I updated src:proguard which now ships the proguard-gradle and
  proguard-base maven artifacts.

* I fixed src:trove3 which built the wrong ant target and thus some of
  its classes were missing from the final jar file. In addition I had
  to patch src:android-tools-base because Google likes to work with
  trove 1.0, which is ancient, so that we can use Debian's version.

* I skipped the fat32lib library for jobb because it didn't seem
  crucial to me.


We need lombok-ast for compiling the lint tool which in turn is used as
part of the Android Gradle Plugin. I have made some progress but only
after I used upstream's version of lombok and later Google's version of
lombok-ast from

https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/android/tools/external/lombok/lombok-ast/0.2.3/

Those sources include some auto-generated java files that are usually
created with TemplateProcessor.jar in lombok-ast. I think the issue here
is that we must not change the build.path to /usr/share/java, which is
convenient for finding Debian's system jar files, because the build
system expects to find TemplateProcessor.jar on this path too. However
this jar file is part of src:lombok-ast itself and just another target
in the build process.

There are also several bugs in ivyplusplus and lombok and I intend to
start over again with those three packages until I can built lombok-ast
from source.

That's it for now.

Regards,

Markus


[1]

./build/base/dvlib/build/libs/dvlib-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/annotations/build/libs/annotations-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/builder-test-api/build/libs/builder-test-api-1.5.0.jar
./build/base/rule-api/build/libs/rule-api-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/api-generator/build/libs/api-generator.jar
./build/base/draw9patch/build/libs/draw9patch-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/profile/build/libs/profile.jar
./build/base/ninepatch/build/libs/ninepatch-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/jack/jack-api/build/libs/jack-api-0.9.0.jar
./build/base/jack/jill-api/build/libs/jill-api-0.9.0.jar
./build/base/lint/build/libs/lint-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/lint-api/build/libs/lint-api-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/chartlib/build/libs/chartlib-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/ant-tasks/build/libs/ant-tasks-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/ddmlib/build/libs/ddmlib-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/manifest-merger/build/libs/manifest-merger-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/asset-studio/build/libs/asset-studio-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/archquery/build/libs/archquery-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/lint-tests/build/libs/lint-tests-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/sdklib/build/libs/sdklib-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/gradle/build/libs/gradle-1.5.0.jar
./build/base/gradle-core/build/libs/gradle-core-1.5.0.jar
./build/base/sdklib-test/build/libs/sdklib-test-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/perflib/build/libs/perflib-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/layoutlib-api/build/libs/layoutlib-api-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/testutils/build/libs/testutils-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/google-services/build/libs/google-services-1.5.0.jar
./build/base/builder-model/build/libs/builder-model-1.5.0.jar
./build/base/sdk-common/build/libs/sdk-common-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/screenshot2/build/libs/screenshot2-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/builder/build/libs/builder-1.5.0.jar
./build/base/common/build/libs/common-24.5.0.jar
./build/base/lint-checks/build/libs/lint-checks-24.5.0.jar

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