Does that mean the plan is to provide a mapping from old file locations to new
ones? For example, if I have this in my plugin.xml:
<config-file target="res/values/strings.xml" parent="" />
Will the new cordova-android automatically convert the target value to the new
location of "app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml"?
Thanks,
Richard
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Bowser [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 3:51 PM
To: dev <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Proposal: Change Android Project Directory Structure to Android
Studio style
@Richard: The changes to the Android files in cordova-common should allow for
config-file, source-file and resource-file to work fine. I already did
something similar in February, but I should have checked it in on an
Cordova-Android branch instead of the other repo.
https://github.com/infil00p/cordova-android-studio
@Parashuram: Does this drop the JAR is libs? I couldn't quite tell from
looking at the JS code doing the installation. If it does, that won't change
at all.
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Parashuram N <[email protected]>
wrote:
> This is an example -
> https://github.com/ConnectSDK/Connect-SDK-Cordova-Plugin. This
> actually has a hook that downloads and places the source code based on
> the current directory structure.
>
> On 5/17/16, 2:53 PM, "Richard Knoll" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >We have a lot of plugin.xml elements that depend on the old file
> structure. Tags like config-file, source-file, resource-file, etc. all
> have target elements that take arbitrary paths to project files.
> Looking at the new project structure, it seems like most of the
> relevant folders have moved around. Does your proposal handle that or
> do plugins need to update to reflect the new structure? I figure there
> isn't much we can do for plugins that use hooks.
> >
> >Richard
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Joe Bowser [mailto:[email protected]]
> >Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 2:07 PM
> >To: dev <[email protected]>
> >Subject: Re: Proposal: Change Android Project Directory Structure to
> Android Studio style
> >
> >On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Parashuram N
> ><[email protected]>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> I think the proposal is great. Our gradle is pretty big, and it
> >> does make sense to just do the defaults.
> >> +1 (personally speaking) to this – will save soo much of my time as
> >> +I
> >> depend on this for my react-native-cordova-plugin adapter. Your
> >> changes will make life so much easier ☺
> >>
> >> How do the plugins break? Will plugins have to make change? In a
> >> way, it may make sense to do this with big changes at Google I/O –
> >> that way, we just have 1 breaking change, and plugin authors have
> >> to look at the changes just once.
> >>
> >
> >Ideally they shouldn't break, but I can't guarantee that. I do have
> >to
> change how plugins are installed in the Android cordova scripts, but
> the cordova-common work abstracted all that out and made that easier.
> A user who hasn't tweaked their app shouldn't notice the difference.
> >
> >That said, the users who have may notice stuff, and I have no idea
> >how
> Crosswalk would work with this yet. It'd be good to work with them
> once we have something more working.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> On 5/17/16, 1:55 PM, "Joe Bowser" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> >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_st
> >> >ruc
> >> >ture
> >> >
> >> >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
> >>
> >>
> >
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