This projects provides several Maven archetypes for Android. Those archetypes allows to quickly bootstrap a Maven project to develop an android application.
These artifacts are based on the maven-android-plugin (http://code.google.com/p/maven-android-plugin/). It currently uses the 2.8.3 version.
The quickstart archetype creates a simple android application ready to be deployed on an android device. It's a pretty simple way to initiate an android project:
mvn archetype:generate \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=android-quickstart \
-DarchetypeGroupId=de.akquinet.android.archetypes \
-DarchetypeVersion=1.0.5 \
-DgroupId=your.company \
-DartifactId=my-android-application
You can also set the created 'package' with '-Dpackage=your.company.android'. By default it uses the given groupId.
Once generated, the application is ready to be built and deployed. Start an android emulator, or plug an Android dev phone, and launch:
cd my-android-application
mvn clean install android:deploy
The application will be built and deployed on the device.
This archetype creates a multi-module project containing an android application and a project testing this application (integration tests using instrumentation).
mvn archetype:generate \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=android-with-test \
-DarchetypeGroupId=de.akquinet.android.archetypes \
-DarchetypeVersion=1.0.5 \
-DgroupId=com.foo.bar \
-DartifactId=my-android-project \
-Dpackage=com.foo.bar.android
The 'package' value is optional (by default use the groupId). You can also set the targeted Android platform with '-Dplatform=x'. By default, it use 7 (android 2.1)
Once generated, the application is ready to be built and tested. Start an android emulator, or plug an Android dev phone, and launch:
cd my-android-project
mvn clean install
The application will be built, then the integration-tests will be built and executed on the Android device.
This archetype extends android-with-test with release management.
mvn archetype:generate \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=android-release \
-DarchetypeGroupId=de.akquinet.android.archetypes \
-DarchetypeVersion=1.0.5 \
-DgroupId=com.foo.bar \
-DartifactId=my-android-project \
-Dpackage=com.foo.bar.android
The 'package' value is optional (by default use the groupId). You can also set the targeted Android platform with '-Dplatform=x'. By default, it use 7 (android 2.1)
Once generated, the application is ready to be built and tested. Start an android emulator, or plug an Android dev phone, and launch:
cd my-android-project
mvn clean install
The application will be built, then the integration-tests will be built and executed on the Android device.
When you release your application, it will generate a signed, zipaligned and ProGuard-processed apk.
You will have to add a profile to your settings.xml containing the signing informations:
<profile>
<id>android-release</id>
<properties>
<sign.keystore>/path/to/keystore</sign.keystore>
<sign.alias>key alias</sign.alias>
<sign.storepass>keystore password</sign.storepass>
<sign.keypass>key password</sign.keypass>
</properties>
</profile>
or directly pass those properties through the command line:
mvn release:prepare
mvn release:perform -Dsign.keystore=/path/to/keystore \
-Dsign.alias=key-alias \
-Dsign.storepass=keystore-password \
-Dsign.keypass=key-password
mvn release:clean
The archetype contains a test key store which MUST NOT BE USED IN PRODUCTION. However you can use it for testing:
mvn clean install -Prelease \
-Dsign.keystore=PATH_OF_THE_PROJECT/my-android-project/test-key.keystore \
-Dsign.alias=mykey \
-Dsign.storepass=testtest \
-Dsign.keypass=testtest
Be aware that Android cannot re-deploy artifacts using a different key, so be sure to undeploy all artifacts before running the release.
The android-archetype-project is an open source project licensed under the Apache License 2.0. It is founded by akquinet
- As the archetypes used the new archetype format, they don't work with the deprecated goal 'archetype:create'