What benefits does Maven give (over ant) for building android projects?

Question

I\'ve recently been trying to setup maven for building my android projects, using the maven-android-plugin.

Whilst this is a good exercise, I\'m not convinced that the b

Answer 1

Well maven is worth it if you are developing a j2ee application to save you from the jar hell when using external apis

So if you are not going to use the maven repositories its not worth it.

I hate maven because of the problems you already mentioned. But it saves a lot time if you need xy jars. Im currently developing a eclipse plugin which can download required jars and dependencies form maven without the maven compiler or pom files. But its far from ready

You can also create a separate maven project and include it in the android project im not sure if it works with android but you can do it in standart jdk