[Android-tools-devel] Updating SDK tools
殷啟聰
seamlikok at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 09:59:28 UTC 2015
Hi all,
I am thinking that, so far SDK Tools (and its version number) seems to be
independent from other tools in SDK Build-tools and SDK Platform-tools, and
from <http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/tools-notes.html> we can see
the version of other tools they require, maybe androidsdk-tools can fetch
the gradle-* tags while other android-platform-* repos can fetch android-*
tags. This makes all tools up-to-date.
Cheers,
Kai-Chung Yan
殷啟聰 <seamlikok at gmail.com> 於 2015年7月9日週四 下午5:21寫道：
> Hi all,
>
> However things in SDK Build-tools and SDK Platform-tools are a little bit
> worse. Their tools come from various repo, and one single repo contains
> tools belonging to various SDK *-tools. Also note that the mksdcard in SDK
> Tools is from platform/sdk instead of platform/tool/* .
>
> By the way, I bought a VPN just now and I can reach you guys finally :)
>
> Cheers,
> Kai-Chung Yan
>
> Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> 於 2015年7月9日週四 上午2:21寫道：
>
>>
>> Yeah, platform/tools is the root dir of all this, but there is not
>> platform/tools git repo, only git repos under that, e.g.:
>>
>> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/base.git
>> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/buildSrc.git
>> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/swt.git
>>
>> That's how the `repo` tool sets things up. Its a bit bizarre, but `repo`
>> is
>> used to build all Android ROMs as well as a lot of the SDK. The
>> androidsdk-tools source package should be set up to mirror that setup. It
>> looks like it already is, but it needs some improvements.
>>
>> About those build instructions, we'll have to change all `./gradlew`
>> calls to
>> be just `gradle`, and then find all jar dependencies in Debian. One idea
>> is
>> to make a patch that removes `mavenCentral()` and `jcenter()` from all
>> build.gradle files, then add static paths to find the jars using
>> /usr/share/java
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> 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
>> >>>> LinkedIn: <https://linkedin.com/in/seamlik>
>> >>>> Blog: <seamlik.logdown.com>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
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> --
>
> 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
> LinkedIn: <https://linkedin.com/in/seamlik>
> Blog: <seamlik.logdown.com>
>
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一生只向真理與妻子低頭
Full-time student of Providence University of Taiwan
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