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

Maybe the gradle makes more sense.

Google released an ide called AndroidStudio, it uses gradle. Seems like google will suggest gradle in building an Android project.

I tried to use Maven to build my android project, it's hard to use, finally I changed to gradle.

Another good answer on stackoverflow why-use-gradle-instead-of-ant-or-maven