Zutubi Android Ant Tasks

Introduction

The zutubi-android-ant project provides a collection of Ant tasks that are useful for Android (http://www.android.com/) projects. These tasks are intended to complement the Ant support provided by the Android SDK.

Home Page

The zutubi-android-ant project has home on the web at:

http://zutubi.com/source/projects/zutubi-android-ant/

Check it out for full project documentation.

License

This code is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See the LICENSE file for details.

Quick Start

To use zutubi-android-ant in your projects, you can:

• Download the latest jar from: http://github.com/jsankey/zutubi-android-ant/downloads and add it to your source tree.
• Define a namespace on the root element of your build file as follows:
• Nested within this root element, add the following taskdef:
• Reference the tasks in under the zaa: namespace, e.g.: zaa:lint </zaa:lint>

Available Tasks

Currently, zutubi-android-ant contains the following tasks:

• addusedpermission : adds elements to a manifest
• bumpversion : bumps the project versionCode (optionally versionName)
• getversion : captures the versionCode and versionName to properties
• jsonversion : generates a JSON file usable with cwac-updater
• libproperties : makes it easy to link library sources in Eclipse
• lint : convenience task for running Android lint
• ndkbuild : convenience task for running native builds
• removeusedpermission : removes elements from a manifest
• setmanifestattributes: sets attributes on the element
• setversion : sets the project versionCode and/or versionName

Full documentation for the tasks is available online:

http://zutubi.com/source/projects/zutubi-android-ant/documentation/#tasks

More Information

For more details check out:

• The project home page (includes full documentation): http://zutubi.com/source/projects/zutubi-android-ant/
• The example projects in the examples/ subdirectory (requires a built jar).
• The GitHub project page: https://github.com/jsankey/zutubi-android-ant/

Building

To build the task jar, use ant in the root directory of this source tree:

$ ant jar

More ant targets are available, for details run:

$ ant -p

The build uses the Ant Script Library (http://www.exubero.com/asl/) for those that wish to understand further.

Feedback

If you have any thoughts, questions etc about the tasks, you can contact me at:

jason@zutubi.com

All feedback is welcome.