Why do you want to be notified when tasks are being created instead of
doing it after? If you do:
android.applicationVariants.all { variant ->
}
you will effectively be called as soon as each variant is created and get
access to all its tasks. Is this not enough?
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Zac Bowling <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey guys!
>
> I want extend the DSL for variants/flavors and add build tasks that
> compile for each variant to build JNI libs using our own build systems for
> each variant.
>
> The way it works inside the plugin is very hardcoded in VariantManager but
> I would love to get a callback myself to create my own tasks. What I would
> love to do is know the VariantData like it's passed around internally.
>
> Right now my method is super hacky. I'm running through all the tasks as
> they are added and parsing the task names to add dependencies. It's not
> optimal.
>
> The source provider/artifact API concept looks like it is my only hook to
> add different libs to each variant but it's only for adding additional
> folders. That works for me to set directories but doesn't help me on the
> task side.
>
> My goal is that I'm building this so you can call arbitrary build tools
> (like cmake or xcodebuild) with the current variant info so that custom JNI
> libs can be built for each flavor/architecture/configuration.
>
> Is there is a cute method I can use without hacking or calling private
> APIs?
>
> The short term is I could fork and refactor the Android plugin but I don't
> want to pull what Amazon did (and hopefully work with their fork maybe) and
> be able to work if you apply my plugin after the Android one (sort of where
> the new NDK plugin seems to be going). Would you guys be open to pull
> requests if I refactor the base plugin to expose a few methods to get
> callbacks from the VariantManager when it's creating tasks?
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> ~
> Zac Bowling
> Engineering - Apportable, Inc
> http://apportable.com/
>
>
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