[CB-9149] Make gradle alias subprojects in order to handle libs that depend on libs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Master
• Component/s: cordova-android
• Assignee: Tony Homer
• Reporter: Tony Homer
• Created: 10/Jun/15 04:32
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:07
• Resolved: 17/Jul/15 22:28

Description

Currently there is an issue with how references for libraries are created in gradle.

1. project A includes a plugin that includes 2 frameworks: B and C
2. framework C depends on framework B
3. C will not be able to resolve B because the reference will be prefixed with the project name (e.g., com.plugin.id/C wants com.plugin.id/B, but only com.plugin.id/A-B exists)

For a concrete example, see:
https://github.com/01org/APKexpansion

The relevant frameworks are:

<framework src="AndroidLibrary/GoogleExtras/play_licensing/library" custom="true" />
<framework src="AndroidLibrary/GoogleExtras/play_apk_expansion/downloader_library" custom="true"/>

The downloader library (downloader_library) depends on the licensing library (library). However, the references in the project will be created with prefixes that will prevent the downloader library from resolving licensing library:

org.apache.cordova.xapkreader/projectName-library
org.apache.cordova.xapkreader/projectName-downloader_library

In order to fix this, settings.gradle should prefix the framework directory, but omit the prefix in the framework references:

include ":org.apache.cordova.xapkreader:library"
project(":org.apache.cordova.xapkreader:library").projectDir = new File("org.apache.cordova.xapkreader/projectName-library")