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

My android app shares business objects and other functionality with my back-end server so I pulled this out into a common maven project which both the app and the server (as maven projects) have a dependency on. Maven is perfect for this sort of thing, so its helpful in this instance, but if you are writing fairly straightforward apps, I'm not sure what benefit maven would have, especially when getting the android-maven-plugin to behave took me so long.