[Android-tools-devel] Updating SDK tools

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I'm CCing the android-tools list.

I think it makes sense to make a source package per git repo, unless Google is moving around important files between them a lot, like we saw with AndroidConfig.h.  All of the android-platform-* source packages are already organized like that. My main concern with this approach is that it might mean a lot of work in the short term.

Yeah, the git release tags are a nightmare, they are not consistent nor documented much.  I think for now, we should just go with our best guess as to what is the right tag, then we can adjust in the future.

.hc

On Jul 5, 2015, at 8:39 AM, Komal Sukhani wrote:

> Hello Kai-Chung,
> 
> Those methods are introduced in higher version of libraries. For example, methods like getAbis(), getDensity() of ddmlib v23.1.0 are used.
> 
> Komal Sukhani
> 
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 2:45 AM, 殷啟聰 <seamlikok at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Komal,
> 
> Perhaps those APIs that reported missing are actually in buildSrc?
> 
> Hi Hans,
> 
> We found that the android-xxx tags does not exist in all repos, for example platform/tools/buildSrc.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kai-Chung Yan
> 
> 
> 2015 年 7 月 4 日 (週六)04:51 <Komal Sukhani> 於 komaldsukhani at gmail.com 寫道：
> Hello,
> 
> I hope you are enjoying in California.
> 
> This week I have been working on Android plugin for Gradle. The plugin has dependency over some
> of Java libraries like sdklib, ddmlib etc. These libraries are provided by source package androidsdk-tools
> but their current version is 22.2 and one used by plugin is 24.2.0. I have tried using existing libraries but
> Gradle plugin refers to some of methods that were introduced in higher version. So update is must.
> 
> androidsdk-tools package is fetching code from two different repo, 
>                              - tools/base
>                              - tools/swt
> 
> Kai-Chung and I were thinking instead of updating the package, it would be easier to maintain the package
> if we create two separate packages for repos tools/base and tools/swt namely android-platform-tools-base
> and android-platform-tools-build. This will cover all  SDK tools and Android-Gradle-Plugin, but there will
> be two source packages for SDK tools.
> 
> What do you suggest?
> 
> Komal Sukhani
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