[Android-tools-devel] Updating SDK tools

Fri Jul 10 07:03:38 UTC 2015

Have you found documentation about using the gradle-* tags over the Android
release version tags?  It seems that only buildSrc is missing the Android
release version tags.

.hc

殷啟聰:
> 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
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>>>>>>> Full-time student of Providence University of Taiwan
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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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>
>>