Support apk / apklib artefacts

[Vorta1]

Hello,

bit of a long shot, but would it be possible for your plugin to do the same strip-jar process it does for jar artefacts for andrioid apk & apklib build artefacts?

We build these using the com.simpligility.maven.plugins.android-maven-plugin, which generates a META-INF folder and adds in a copy of an AndroidMainifest.xml file during the build which are date-time stamped with the machine time of the build, which means the md5sum of the resulting artefact (apklib/apk) isn't reproducible.

Is this something your plugin could help with?

Kind regards

Pete.

[Zlika]

Hi,
I'm not an Android developer so I'm not familiar with the Android manifest files and the Android build process. But you can propose a Pull Request :-)

[Zlika]

Hi @Vorta1,
Could you give me the address of a public repository with an Android project using the android-maven-plugin, so I can take a look at the produced artifacts?
Regards

[Vorta1]

@Zlika I will see what I can do 👍

[Vorta1]

So I've had a go at making a simple Android project in maven:

https://github.com/Vorta1/simple-android-app-build

However despite my best efforts I can't come up with a way to avoid the build machine having to have the required platform of the Android SDK available for it to work...

I believe the quickest way is to go to https://developer.android.com/studio/, scroll down to 'Command line tools only', download for your OS, run the sdk manager and download a platform of your choice, I chose platform level 25.

Update this project's pom file for the android-maven-plugin configuration section and set the 'platform' level you chose to download and the 'path' to where the sdk is installed on your build machine.