Deploy as system app via Gradle

2016-09-02 Thread vogella
Hi, is there a setting in the Gradle DSL which allows me to deploy an app as system app? The current workaround is to use the approach described in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28302833/how-to-install-an-app-in-system-app-while-developing-from-android-studio but maybe the Android

Getting the classpath entries of the Android project via the Android Gradle DSL

2016-09-01 Thread vogella
Hi, in my Gradle build script I would like to retrieve the classpath entries of the different flavors in my application. I'm mostly interested in the "main" flavor. I looked at http://google.github.io/android-gradle-dsl/current/ but was not successful to get this information in my Gradle

Why does Gradle not handle the download of the Android Support Repository / Library

2015-06-02 Thread vogella
Hello, I really like how Gradle handles the dependencies. One thing which feels strange to me is that I still need to use the Android SDK Manager to download the Android Support Repository and the Android Support Library. Why is that not handled automatically via Gradle? Best regards, Lars

Android issue tracker moving?

2015-03-31 Thread vogella
Hi, With Google code closing down, has it already been decided where the Android issue tracker is moving to? Best regards, Lars Sorry if that has been already announced or discussed but I did not find a reference to it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Contribution to the Eclipse project book: Interview with ADT developers or contributors?

2014-07-11 Thread vogella
Hello, I'm in the process of writing a book Contributing to the Eclipse project. See http://www.vogella.com/books/eclipsecontribution.html In this book I also interview several developers / project leaders of popular Eclipse based projects, like the Spring Tools or JBoss tools. I'm aware that

Feedback to the redesign of the Android testing framework

2014-07-03 Thread vogella
Hi, [this might the wrong group to post to, if that is the case point me into the correct direction for feedback to new Android testing framework.] I had a look at the prototype implementation of the new testing framework and it looks like the new approach uses dependency injections with

Re: Future of ADT

2014-07-03 Thread vogella
On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 6:16:24 PM UTC+2, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: On Wed, Jul 2, 2014, at 11:18, Kevin Schultz wrote: I have never met anyone that has used IntelliJ extensively but still prefers Eclipse I do not know how you define extensively, but I definitely have met

New tools git repo

2014-05-13 Thread vogella
Hello, AFAIK the Android development tools are currently migrated to a separate Git repo. I think that would be awesome, as this would reduce the required file footprint for potential contributors like myself. Is the new repo already online or is their a bug to which I can register to see