Hey I know people have been waiting for this for a very long time, but I wrote up a proposal to change the project so it's an Android Studio project. Given that Android Studio is on 2.1.1, I think it's time we moved forward and changed things around.
Proposal PR is here: https://github.com/cordova/cordova-discuss/pull/45 Branch where Proof of Concept work is being done is here: https://github.com/infil00p/cordova-android/tree/studio_project_structure The main roadblock to doing this, of course is migration of plugins and custom code, as well as assets, but I think Android developers would welcome this change because we're acting more like a regular, normal Android project again and not some old, weird legacy/special case thing. I've already did some exploratory work with the old cordova-android-studio version of cordova-common, and installing plugins works fine depending on what version of Cordova you're using. The other thing that has me stuck is all the functionality in the gradle files. I would love to rip out a lot of the stuff we autogenerate in there, such as the settings.gradle file that caused me a huge headache earlier today when I tried to get importing to work. It'd also be good to have a documented process on how we set the Application ID, since I can't quite figure out how we do that, and I know other people are struggling with that as well. This would be slated for Cordova-Android 6.0, and hopefully Google IO doesn't have too many surprises that break us. Joe
