Typical .gitignore file for an Android app

Question

Just put an Android project under git (beanstalk) version control via the command line (mac terminal). Next step is to set up exclusions.

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Answer 1

In addition to what the others have suggested, I'd like to add the proguard folder, in case you are using it. You can either ignore the whole folder or just dump.txt, seeds.txt and usage.txt. Basically, it's a good idea to keep mapping.txt versioned, so that you can debug obfuscated stack traces from your users. More details here.

Answer 2

In Addition, if you use IDEA's IntelliJ, and you build Artifacts (and you should), then you might want to add:

out/

(that's where Artifacts are built by default).

And if you don't want to share your IntelliJ project stuff ignore

.idea/