[CB-3445] Move Cordova-Android Build Setup to Gradle

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: cordova-android
• Assignee: Ian Clelland
• Reporter: Joey Robert Bowser
• Created: 21/May/13 16:51
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:16
• Resolved: 22/Dec/14 19:02

Description

Currently we're using ant for our setup, and our setup can break every time that the Android SDK updates and change its build.xml. However, the Android Team has created Gradle to be more robust such that it doesn't have the same problems as ant-based scripts.

This also has the advantage of using Android Studio for development instead of Eclipse, and the ability for us to bundle resources, which is something we haven't been able to do before.

Moving to Gradle has numerous advantages, but will break scripts, so this is to be moved in the post-3.0 timeframe.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: CB-4667 Create projects compatible to Android Studio
• is duplicated by: CB-7719 Add Gradle Support in Cordova Library Project for Android
• is duplicated by: CB-6174 Cordova CLI Android Project issues with Gradle
• relates to: CB-8204 Gradle lint task exclusion broken on multi-apk builds