[Android-tools-devel] Updating SDK tools
Komal Sukhani
komaldsukhani at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 08:05:54 UTC 2015
Hi Hans,
Gradle plugin has dependency over JavaWriter[1] which is not present in
Debian yet
[1]https://github.com/square/javapoet
Komal Sukhani
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:50 PM, 殷啟聰 <seamlikok at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> I cannot find any direct documentation about that, but the "gradle-*" tags
> are documented in <http://tools.android.com/build>. The commit tagged by
> the latest "gradle-*" tag is much newer than the one tagged by the latest
> "android-*" tag, and so is the SDK Tools version number. Since SDK Tools
> maintains its own version number, and the Gradle plugin is also inside the
> platform/tools repos, I guess it's good to fetch "gradle-*" tags instead.
>
> By the way, gradle_2.5-1 is ready without merging the binary packages.
> Komal you can use it on your work on SDK Tools.
>
> Cheers,
> Kai-Chung
>
> Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> 於 2015年7月10日週五 下午3:03寫道：
>
>>
>> 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
>> >>>>>>> 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>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> _______________________________________________
>> >>>>> Android-tools-devel mailing list
>> >>>>> Android-tools-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>> >>>>>
>> >>>
>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/android-tools-devel
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >> 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>
>> >>
>>
> --
>
> 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>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/android-tools-devel/attachments/20150710/9c82a05a/attachment.html>
More information about the Android-tools-devel
mailing list