android-build

Over time our Android project has expanded a great deal, and these days we are creating multiple branded APKs from the same source tree. This has become challenging due to the package naming requirements of Android. We have all of our shared code in an Android Library project, which is included in the main application project. Plus we have Android library 'overlays' for branded resources that get applied for each brand. When we want to build a brand, we include a few extra properties for that brand that end up including the 'overlay' Android libraries before the main shared code Android

Is there an easy way to get gradle to update dependencies to their latest available version? For build reproducibility all my dependencies are defined with a version number like this in my build.gradle file: dependencies { compile 'namespace:package1:version' compile 'namespace:package2:version' compile 'namespace:package3:version' } Periodically I want to update every package to their latest version. Typically this is the first thing I do for a new sprint after making a release. It's a real pain doing this manually for each package. Ideally I would like a command to update the build.gradle

I would like to know the difference between the two build_flavor 's viz. eng & user-debug The difference between eng and user build flavors is quiet evident. But eng and user-debug is confusing me somewhat. What are the additional Debug facilities provided in eng that are not present in user-debug? For eg. If I take only the Kernel being built: Will the Debugging levels differ for the eng and user-debug builds? I am facing an issue where the user-debug build is booting up on the android phone. But the eng build is not and the build_flavor is the only difference between the two builds. Any help

I have an Android project in Eclipse I would like to convert to be built with Ant instead. How can I achieve this? I have tried exporting an Ant build file but I'm pretty sure that's not going to work (nor does it when running ant with the exported file). I do not know much about Ant either so some explanation would also help. EDIT: now I seem to have managed to create the needed build file but I need to add the projects libs like admob.jar to be seen by ant and used to build. as I am getting the following error -dex: [echo] Converting compiled files and external libraries into C:\Users\Jason

I am having runtime problems with my gradle file. I added this compile 'com.google.android:flexbox:0.3.1' as a compile time dependency to my Gradle file. I encountered an error and added this in my project level Gradle file. maven { url "https://maven.google.com" } Which finally looked liked this after adding the above allprojects { repositories { jcenter() maven { url "https://maven.google.com" } } } After adding the above in my app level Gradle file I am now encountering a different error when I am trying to run my app. So I did the following as per some answers from SO. Tried a Clean and