Android support library setup with maven

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Besides the maven-android-sdk-deployer, if you always have Android SDK installed with Google extras like me, you can define a local repository in your projects POM file and let maven download the dependencies from this local one.

The rational behind this is that, Google has already release the extra addons in a maven repository compatible directory layout. For my own machine, it is like this:

jerry-mac-mini:android jerry$ pwd
/Users/jerry/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20130917/sdk/extras/android
jerry-mac-mini:android jerry$ tree m2repository
m2repository
├── NOTICE.txt
├── com
│   └── android
│       └── support
│           ├── appcompat-v7
│           │   ├── 18.0.0
│           │   │   ├── appcompat-v7-18.0.0.aar
│           │   │   ├── appcompat-v7-18.0.0.aar.md5
│           │   │   ├── appcompat-v7-18.0.0.aar.sha1
│           │   │   ├── appcompat-v7-18.0.0.pom
│           │   │   ├── appcompat-v7-18.0.0.pom.md5
│           │   │   └── appcompat-v7-18.0.0.pom.sha1
│           │   ├── 19.0.0
│           │   │   ├── appcompat-v7-19.0.0.aar
│           │   │   ├── appcompat-v7-19.0.0.aar.md5
.............

So, I just need to put some extra lines in my POM file like this, and the “env.ANDROID_HOME” is the environment variable pointed to Android SDK installation path.

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>android-support</id>
        <url>file://${env.ANDROID_HOME}/extras/android/m2repository</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>
    ......
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.android.support</groupId>
    <artifactId>support-v4</artifactId>
    <version>19.0.1</version>
</dependency>

After these steps, Maven in my ADT enabled Eclipse and console are both happily to resolve the desired dependencies, like this:

jerry-mac-mini:android-app-project jerry$ mvn dependency:tree
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]                                                                         
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building android-app-project 0.0.5-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Downloading: file:///Users/jerry/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20130917/sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/android/support/support-v4/19.0.1/support-v4-19.0.1.pom
Downloaded: file:///Users/jerry/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20130917/sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/android/support/support-v4/19.0.1/support-v4-19.0.1.pom (403 B at 28.1 KB/sec)
Downloading: file:///Users/jerry/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20130917/sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/android/support/support-v4/19.0.1/support-v4-19.0.1.jar
Downloaded: file:///Users/jerry/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20130917/sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/android/support/support-v4/19.0.1/support-v4-19.0.1.jar (621 KB at 16783.8 KB/sec)
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-dependency-plugin:2.1:tree (default-cli) @ android-app-project ---
[INFO] team.apollo:android-app-project:apk:0.0.5-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] +- com.google.android:android:jar:2.3.3:provided
[INFO] |  +- org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:jar:4.0.1:provided
[INFO] |  |  +- org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:jar:4.0.1:provided
[INFO] |  |  \- commons-codec:commons-codec:jar:1.3:provided
[INFO] |  +- org.khronos:opengl-api:jar:gl1.1-android-2.1_r1:provided
[INFO] |  +- xerces:xmlParserAPIs:jar:2.6.2:provided
[INFO] |  \- org.json:json:jar:20080701:provided
[INFO] +- com.android.support:support-v4:jar:19.0.1:compile
[INFO] +- com.google.code.gson:gson:jar:2.2.2:compile
[INFO] +- de.mindpipe.android:android-logging-log4j:jar:1.0.3:compile
[INFO] \- log4j:log4j:jar:1.2.16:compile
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1.339s
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Mar 24 14:32:00 CST 2014
[INFO] Final Memory: 10M/325M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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