[Android-tools-devel] Updating SDK tools

[Komal Sukhani]

Hello Hans,

>From Android Tools Site[1], I have found that platform/tools.git is root
project and all SDK tools are built under it.

[1] http://tools.android.com/build/gradleplugin

Komal Sukhani

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
wrote:

>
> I checked out the git repos, since these all seem to be built using
> gradle, we
> should try to mimic the official Google setup as much as possible.  For a
> repo
> like platform/tools/buildSrc.git I think having that as a standalone source
> package will just create work, since lots of things depend on it, but it
> doesn't create anything.
>
> Has anyone found any documentation of how Google builds all this?  I
> imagine
> it is similar to how Android ROMs are built, using multiple git repos
> managed
> using `repo`, and built all together at once.
>
> .hc
>
> 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
> >> --
> >> 殷啟聰 | Kai-Chung Yan
> >> 一生只向真理與妻子低頭
> >> Full-time student of Providence University of Taiwan
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> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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