[Android-tools-devel] Gradle or Ant?

[Fluff Rabbit]

If it's purely a Java app, then it does as it does. If there is native code, that's its own challenge. I used to use Ant to build Android apps before Gradle stepped in. I would love to back to that, and I think you're saying Google's SDK and Debian's SDK are the same in this area.

On August 4, 2019 8:12:42 AM MDT, "殷啟聰 | Kai-Chung Yan" <seamlik at debian.org> wrote:
>Whether it's Ant or Gradle, it just runs the tools provided by the SDK,
>so yes. But you need to know what tools are run in what order.
>
>Fluff Rabbit via Android-tools-devel 於 2019/8/4 下午9:10 寫道:
>> Oh boy. This seems like one of the hardest things to package, so
>getting new contributors would be its own challenge. I'm assuming the
>packaging environment would be Debian testing or unstable and the
>packager would need familiarity with how Google packages things.
>> 
>> Ant used to be the way to build APKs, back when I was still using the
>official Android SDK and Java. I don't really "get" Gradle and I think
>it's shitty how a build system needs to update itself just to do its
>job. I would actually prefer working with Ant if not for
>incompatibility with other people's apps.
>> 
>> So you're saying that even though it's not documented, Debian's
>Android SDK should build apps no problem with the Ant it comes with?
>> 
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