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How to integrate Android Development Tools and Maven

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0200

With the Maven Android Plugin it is possible to build and deploy/undeploy your android app and start/stop the emulator – if you’re used to maven you won’t be going without it ;)

If you’re interested in signing your apk using maven – take a look at this article

Project Setup

Create an android project using the android tool

We need some dependencies – so create a pom.xml in the project’s root directory – I took this from the plugin samples and modified it:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
 Copyright (C) 2009 Jayway AB

 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 You may obtain a copy of the License at

 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 limitations under the License.
-->
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>com.hascode.android.app</groupId>
     <artifactId>demo</artifactId>
     <packaging>apk</packaging>
     <name>hasCode.com - Sample Android App using the Maven Android Plugin</name>
     <version>0.1</version>
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>android</groupId>
             <artifactId>android</artifactId>
             <version>2.1</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>

         <dependency>
             <groupId>junit</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
             <version>4.8.1</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>

     <build>
         <!--<finalName>${artifactId}</finalName>-->
         <plugins>
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-android-plugin</artifactId>
                 <configuration>
                     <sdk>
                         <path>${env.ANDROID_HOME}</path>
                         <platform>3</platform>
                     </sdk>
                     <deleteConflictingFiles>true</deleteConflictingFiles>
                 </configuration>
                 <extensions>true</extensions>
             </plugin>

             <plugin>
                 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                 <configuration>
                 <source>1.5</source>
                 <target>1.5</target>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>

         </plugins>
     </build>

</project>

Eclipse Snippets

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

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Spare my time when using static imports ..

Window > Preferences > Java > Editor > Content Assist > Favorites:

com.google.common.collect.Lists
com.jayway.restassured.matcher.RestAssuredMatchers
com.jayway.restassured.RestAssured
io.restassured.matcher.RestAssuredMatchers
io.restassured.RestAssured
org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert
org.hamcrest.Matchers
org.mockito.Mockito
javaslang.API
javaslang.Predicates

Template to insert a static logger instance

Go Windows > Preferences > Java > Editor > Templates > New …

Enter logger as name and as template:

${:import(org.slf4j.Logger,org.slf4j.LoggerFactory)}
private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(${enclosing_type}.class);

Afterwards you’re able to type logger in your code and ctrl+space gives the option to insert the logger

IntelliJ Snippets

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Live Templates

JUnit 5 Test

@org.junit.jupiter.api.Test

@org.junit.jupiter.api.DisplayName("$NAME$")

void $METHOD$() throws Exception {

    $END$

}

Figure 1. IntelliJ Live Template Editor

Edit Variables:

NAME
METHOD: default-value camelCase(NAME)

Figure 2. Editing template variables

SLF4J Logger Template

private static final org.slf4j.Logger log = org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger( $CLASS$.class );

Edit variables:

CLASS: expression: className()

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