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Android Application Development with Maven
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During the months we were writing this book, a lot of people asked us what would make this book special and why someone should care to read it. The most powerful argument that I heard all this time was, "Hey, Google official supports only Gradle to build Android applications and the latest release of Android Studio makes extensive use of Gradle. Ant was already replaced and Maven is nowhere. Why do you spend time writing about developing Android applications with Maven?" Good questions! The answers, however, is hidden within the question itself. First of all, there are no books out there that explain step by step about all the development phases and critical tasks to build and manage the life cycle of an Android Application with Maven. Maven is still—no matter if we like it or not—the most popular build tool. Many "traditional" software houses that have invested time and efforts to standardize their development process around Maven want to make the next step and expand their portfolio to the Android Market. Clearly, having another build tool only for Android development doesn't look very practical, although it's an option. Companies would save a lot of money if they could just plug their Android applications to the existing development life cycle, driven by Maven. At the same time, it's true that Maven is a very mature, flexible, and robust build tool. Its extensibility through plugins and the idea of descriptively configuring the build process without the need to write scripts made it the defacto standard.
Patroklos Papapetrou, Jonathan LALOU - Personal Name
First Edition
978-1-78398-610-1
NONE
Computer Science
English
2015
1-192
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