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I want to start a project for Android but i really like to build it using Maven. Does Google provide support for Maven or plan to support it? It would be great if anybody know at least an archetype for Maven that I can use meanwhile. Thanks in advance.
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In order to use Maven to build an Android application, you will need to configure the Maven Android Plugin within your pom. xml file. Android applications are deployed to the device as an apk file, not a jar. You must specify this in the the packaging configuration.
You can run Maven to build the project from Android Studio.
Maven will do the rest for you when you build (download to local cache if not already existing, fetch dependencies, javadoc etc). Even if you were to copy your project to another PC without the JAR's, delete the JAR's etc, if Maven is present it will re-download them automatically when you build.
Gradle is more powerful. However, there are times that you really do not need most of the features and functionalities it offers. Maven might be best for small projects, while Gradle is best for bigger projects.
Seems like there is a maven plugin for that :-)
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