Maven

Links

http://code.google.com/p/maven-android-plugin/

Configuration

Install the Android SDK, Install - SDK
Download the maven-android-sdk-deployer from http://github.com/mosabua/maven-android-sdk-deployer/archives/master

Note: Might be better to clone the Git repository at git://github.com/mosabua/maven-android-sdk-deployer.git.

Extract to a convenient folder. I extracted to:

C:\src\mosabua-maven-android-sdk-deployer-821e1c4\

Edit the pom.xml file, changing the android.sdk.path property to the path of the Android SDK. I changed:

<android.sdk.path>/home/java/software/android-sdk-linux/</android.sdk.path>

…to…

<android.sdk.path>C:/tools/android-sdk-windows/</android.sdk.path>

If the team is using Nexus, then edit the repo.url in the pom.xml file. I changed:

<repo.url>http://localhost:9081/nexus/content/repositories/thirdparty</repo.url>

…to…

<repo.url>http://svn.mycompany.com/nexus/content/repositories/thirdparty</repo.url>

Edit your Maven settings.xml file and add authentication details for a Nexus admin user:

<settings>
    <servers>
        <server>
            <id>android.repo</id>
            <username>admin</username>
            <password>gmahler</password>
        </server>

To deploy the Android artifacts to your Nexus repository, change into the root of your maven-android-sdk-deployer and deploy:
```
cd \src\mosabua-maven-android-sdk-deployer-821e1c4
mvn deploy
```
Note:
- If you get a Properties file not found… error, check out the Issues section below…
- If you get errors about missing files, then check out this ticket: Issue 1.

Project Configuration

Create your Android project.
Download this sample pom.xml file and copy to the root of your project.
- Remove the entire <parent> tag.
- Change <groupId>, <artifactId> and <name> to your own.
- Rename, and move the source directory to where Maven expects it:
```
mv src java
mkdir -p src/main
mv java src/main/
```
  …or if you don’t want to change the directory structure, just add the sourceDirectory (and testSourceDirectory``*) to your ``pom.xml file:
```
<build>
    <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
    <testSourceDirectory>test</testSourceDirectory>
</build>
```
- If your application uses the Google maps add-on, then add the following dependency:
```
<dependency>
    <groupId>android.add-ons</groupId>
    <artifactId>android-maps</artifactId>
    <version>3</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
```

Usage

To build the project:

mvn install

Issues

Properties file not found

When running mvn deploy for the maven-android-sdk-deployer, I got the following error:

Properties file not found: C:\tools\android-sdk-windows\platforms\android-1.1\source.properties

I got this error because I didn’t install all Available Packages, Install - SDK, in the Android SDK and AVD Manager.

To solve the issue, select and install all available packages before running mvn deploy again…