I’m a big believer in understanding the way the underlying systems work, and installing this way is more work, but you are able to see how everything works together. Still, sometimes it is nice to be able to manually install everything, which brings me to this guide. Probably you can even restore packaging and dexing by including crypto classes from sun.misc, but this is beyond the scope of this snippet.10.3 Rio’s installer (I use and recommend the EXE/web over the ISO, since it is faster and more flexible) does a fantastic job of installing and setting everything up for Android development, without requiring any manual steps. Skip packaging and dexing until export or launch You’ll still get an ugly error when compiling files (“Errors occurred during the build.”). Where _0.01251432.jar is found, depends on your installation – usually either in Eclipse/plugins or in your home dir in. jar xvf rt.jar sun/misc/BASE64Decoder.class sun/misc/BASE64Encoder.class sun/misc/CharacterDecoder.class sun/misc/CharacterEncoder.class However, some of our developers use a configuration which allows at least editing Android apps within Eclipse.įor this, you have to patch _0.01251432.jar with some classes from an ancient Oracle Java 8 release. Currently we can’t recommend this approach. This file has to be referenced from your build.xml file (near the end of the file) like this: Call ant ant clean debug lint # Debug build, lintĪnt clean release # Signed release build (Limited) Eclipse supportįrom Eclipse Marketplace seems to be abandoned. Sdkmanager -install 'build-tools 25.0.3' ANDROID_TARGET = $( grep '^target=' project.properties |cut -d '=' -f 2 ) $/tools/ant dir does not work anymore for modern targets.Įspecially, the code signing process has to be adapted.

Otherwise you’ll get a target not found error. We’re using build-tools 25.0.3,īut more modern versions also should work.įor installing the current Android target 31 you’ll have to use the sdkmanager from tools dir, Tools 25.2.5 seem to be the last version with ant support. The following setup works for us: Platform setup However, there are a few quirks that you have to keep in mind. (especially as you’d also have to migrate the project structure). Migrating such a project to AndroidStudio and gradle may require more effort than you can spare There are legitimate reasons to still build Android apps using ant.įirst of all, you may be responsible for supporting a legacy project with very limited new development.

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