I have inherited an unfinished Android App project from a client. There is a lot of work to be done fixing it up, but I cannot even figure out how to build the project! There is no build.xml file, so I don't think they used ANT to build. How can I find out how to build this existing project?
There is a working APK in the project, so it had to have been built successfully at some point.
Thanks for the input guys. I am used to doing everything via command line because I'm not a huge fan of Eclipse. Turns out that the original developers of this app were actually using a different IDE called IntelliJ. I have not gotten the app to compile yet but I am now on the right track.
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I received a native Java project from Android Studio and I want to know how I can configure my environment, the first time I tried I had a lot of errors with gradel.
Is there a way to know exactly what settings are needed to start project maintenance?
As long as you have installed Android Studio and are able to create sample projects, you should be set up.
Gradle should show you all the problems which your legacy project has. I assume, that you will see a lot of warnings which can be ignored at first.
You might have problems with a missing key.properties file.
Some dependencies might not be available anymore.
You have to resolve all the issues manually. There aren't any special settings.
Like many a newbie I've been blindly clicking away in Android Studio 2 stumbling my way through building an app. Most of it just works so I've not really got my head into gradle.
Any road up, I've wanted to link into Strava and discovered that there were a couple of guys who had done the heavy lifting but on using a specific project, at the vital point of getting the data there is a coding problem. I thought the best approach would be to solve the problem and feedback.
So I downloaded the GitHub project in a zip and tried to do a standalone build and then things just didn't work. I think the basic problem is a) I don't know what I'm doing, and b) presumably the build on GitHub was done using different tools that are not set up for Android Studio.
So given that there is a working project on GitHub (specifically https://github.com/SweetzpotAS/StravaZpot-Android ) what are the dummy steps for getting that project to build locally in AS 2?
The problems I had are that on trying to open the project picking up the gradle file (couldn't find anything else to open in the root directory, the build didn't want to work - complaints about mixed projects. I stripped out the testing app and just tried to build the lib, but I didn't get a working lib in the output directory, just 2 25k stub aar files. Ideally I want to have that as a standalone project to build a local lib and then use that lib in my project (which I reckon is within my abilities!). Run out of Google search ideas!
I'm using Android Studio and I'm close to just canceling the Android version of my app and just sticking with the released iOS version. I need to use an expansion APK and I cannot for the life of me get the downloader_library to import into Android Studio.
I try and run the project and it says it can't find anything from the expansion downloader. I've tried everything I can find on the forums. I've tried bringing into Eclipse and exporting out. I just can't get this to work.
I don't know if I have some kind of fundamental misunderstanding about Android and libraries and modules and things but I'm about ready to give up on this unless someone has an easy way to help me through. This is the very last step. I have the IAB working, the app works on multiple devices, the performance is good, I just can't figure out this splitting of the APK.
Is it possible to build an android application with rake? The only other question on this subject I saw was a while back and someone advised using Gradle.
So is there any way to do this on the command line, as I am sure under the hood eclipse just runs a lot of command line guff to get the apk file generated then spits it to the device, I just want to generate the apk file (there is alot of other things to be done but these are prior to the APK building).
Is it possible to build an android application with rake?
Yes, insofar as it is possible to build an Android application using Ant, and rake can in theory do everything Ant can.
If you are expecting to find an existing rake script, though, you will likely be disappointed. The Ant scripts necessary to build an Android app are rather substantial, and porting all of that to rake will take quite some time. And, then, they will perpetually be out of date, as those Ant scripts are often modified with Android tools releases.
Here's a small example project that's worth a look: https://github.com/jberkel/android-helloworld-rake
I've been meaning to try it out myself.
I am android developer.I am not aware of ant in android .I have downloaded a code from internet But It has file called build.xml but I am not able to find out what it is doing and for what purpose it is used please give some advise or some kind of tutorial.So I can understand its working thanks in advance.
When you are developing your application, Eclipse is the most convenient way of building the project.
However Ant is most useful when you come to produce a release version. You can set up your Ant build, such that it takes the same source files as the Eclipse project, yet produces a signed, zip-aligned version of the apk in completely separate output location.
By means of a custom build.properties file you can specify source and output locations, keystore names and locations and passwords. It also takes care of any Proguard obfuscation you may want.You can do all this from the command line with a single statement and know that you are going through a repeatable process, not vulnerable to a mouse click in the wrong place.
Have a look at Managing Projects from the Command Line and Building and Running from the Command Line
Take the build.xml from the sample project referred to and use it as a basis for your own project. It works pretty much out of the box.
This build file is an alternative (and less common) way to build your projects using ant.
Eclipse (and the Android plugins) do a n excellent job of saving you the trouble - just use the plugin to build your projects and export APKs.