Hello all,

Starting last week, we have started a migration of the way tools
development work in AOSP. Originally, the development was done in the main
"master" branch, alongside the Android platform, and everything was built
with Make.

Last year we introduced Gradle as the way to build the Java libraries used
by the host.

We have now unbundled the tools from the rest of the platform. What does
this mean:

- Using 'make' in the main master branch will not build the dev tools
anymore. Right now the projects for the dev tools are still there but there
will disappear.
- There is a new branch to checkout only the dev tools projects, and they
build exclusively with Gradle (at least as an entry point, we still call
out to make/ant/maven/gant to build various tools)

The new branches are called 'ub-tools-idea133' (current dev branch), and
'ub-tools-master' for future work. There is no need to use -g anymore to
restrict the projects that are checked out.

The instructions to start building are:

repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b
ub-tools-idea133
repo sync
cd tools
./gradlew assemble

There is also a "makeSdk" task that will build the SDK Tools component of
the SDK.

I'll update tools.android.com later today.

-- 
Xavier Ducrohet
Android SDK Tech Lead
Google Inc.
http://developer.android.com | http://tools.android.com

Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks!

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