Level up your Android build
summary
Gradle becomes the real build engine: use the Gradle Android plugin, the Gradle wrapper for reproducible builds, and community plugins to add tasks for running on devices, annotation processing with gradle-android-apt, and dependency reports with gradle-versions-plugin. CI pipelines run lint, ProGuard and filtered connectedAndroidTests by API level using a small Groovy hook; versioning and automated git commits live in buildSrc Groovy classes; Play Store deploys use play-publisher to upload APKs and metadata. Examples show automated releases from Jenkins, custom tasks that archive artifacts, and hacks that work but require maintenance.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:02app/build.gradle
- 3:38Relevant Build Files
- 4:09Gradle wrapper
- 6:20Using a Gradle plugin
- 11:15Archive Release
- 12:56Scaling up
- 13:59Re-use - Core project
- 16:15Separation - Integration Tests for Java
- 16:29Keep Up To Date
- 18:26Code Quality Tools
- 20:09Continuous Integration
- 21:52Connected Tests on CI
- 23:55Releasing from CI
- 24:29Release from CI - Versioning
- 30:15Advanced - Complex Build Scripts share common configuration data via root subfolder
- 31:17Advanced - Shrink
- 32:36Advanced - Sync images
- 33:49Advanced - Sqlite Access
- 36:11Advanced - Groovy on Android
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