maven basics (android & intellij)

MavenHussain Mansoor

Folio3 (26 Feb 2014)

Maven defined Declarative Dependencies

External modules

Build Order

Directories

Plug-ins

Build Management

Downloads dependencies and maintains local cache

Support Languages

Primarily Java

C#, Ruby, Scala

IDEs Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ (by default), Jbuilder,

Jdeveloper, MyEclipse…

Build Life cycle process-resources

compile

process-test-resources

test-compile

test

package

install

deploy

<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<groupId>com.project</groupId>

<artifactId>Project</artifactId>

<version>1.1</version>

<packaging>apk</packaging>

<name>Project-Maven</name>

Dependencies

Scope compile, runtime, test, system, and provided

System path Local path, deprecated

groupId

artifactId

Packaging apk, jar, …

Tags defined• A universally unique identifier for a project. It is

normal to use a fully-qualified package name to distinguish it from other projects with a similar name (eg. org.apache.maven, com.project)

The identifier for this artifact that is unique within the group given by the group ID. An artifact is something that is either produced or used by a project. Examples of artifacts produced by Maven for a project include: JARs, source and binary distributions, and WARs.

E.g: android, mockito-all, junit

The central repository

Online central repository which hosts all the dependencies

Can search from group-id, artifact-id, version

Can also download jars, pom, etc

How to use? POM (pom.xml) file is the main file all the xml

data in it.

Dependent projects (if any) should also have pom

There are 3 major parts: Add dependencies

add dependencies with local path

add dependencies of custom jars (not in maven)

<build>

<plugins> <plugin>

<groupId>com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2

</groupId>

<artifactId>android-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.8.0</version>

<configuration>

<sdk> <platform>8</platform></sdk>

</configuration>

</plugin> </plugins>

</build>

How to add dependencies

<dependencies>

<dependency>

<groupId>junit</groupId>

<artifactId>junit</artifactId>

<version>4.10</version>

<scope>test</scope>

</dependency>

</dependencies>

Local .jar file mvn install:install-file

-DgroupId=com.personagraph

-DartifactId=richinsights

-Dversion=1.4

-Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=libs/AndroidSDK-1.4-SNAPSHOT.jar

cmd mvn clean

mvn test

mvn compile

mvn deploy

Issues with Andriod Maven 3.1.1 is required with Android version

3.8.0

Google-services aren’t supported Create a local jar and include them

References http://maven.apache.org

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Maven