maven support for android projects?

Question

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 kn

Answer 1

Here is what I did to add maven support to an existing android project in Eclipse. I installed the 'm2e' plugin via the Eclipse market place. Then I installed the 'm2e-android' plugin. At the moment it is called 'Android Configurator for M2E' in Eclipse market place. After installing the two plugins and restarting Eclipse, right click on an existing android project-->Configure-->Convert to Maven Project. Choose a unique group id and an artifact id for your project then click finish. Copy the following contents to the pom.xml of the project and replace all the existing contents. Change the value of the 'version' tag under 'dependencies' to the SDK version you are using. Also change the value of the 'platform' tag near the end of the file to the value of your platform. Do not forget to also change the groupId, artifactId and name of the xml.

    4.0.0
    org.myproject
    MyProject
    0.1.0-SNAPSHOT
    apk
    MyProject

    
        
            com.google.android
            android
            2.3.3
            provided
        
    
    
        ${project.artifactId}
        src
        
            
                
                    com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2
                    android-maven-plugin
                    3.3.0
                    true
                
            
        
        
            
                com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2
                android-maven-plugin
                
                    
                        
                        10
                    
                
            
        
    

After that right click on the project-->Maven-->Update Project. If Eclipse is complaining about errors in the xml, you may want to install maven then run

mvn clean install

from the console in the folder that contains the pom.xml file.