Continuing with my list of impressions and ideas from yesterday follows the next list:
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Monthly Archive for June, 2010
I am attending the advanced Maven training course offered by Sonatype today and tomorrow and thought I would just jot down my impressions while they are fresh. Last week I already got the training material and links to some awesome resources provided by Matthew McCullough.
Continue reading ‘Impressions from the first day of MVN 201′
With the latest release of the Maven Android Plugin a bunch of changes I did went out to the rest of the users of the plugin. As of version 2.5.0 the plugin has improved verification of the sdk platform and api level, a new zipalign goal and maybe the emulator start works on windows too. And the samples have been expanded and changed to use the Android jar artifacts from Maven central. But lets look at the changes of the plugin in detail today and maybe the samples another day…
Continue reading ‘Maven Android Plugin with zipalign and improved verification’
It all started now quite a while ago when I got involved with the Maven Android Plugin and found that having to run a bunch of mvn install file commands sucked. I launched a ticket in the Android issue tracker that got rejected by Google even though there was clearly a community demand for the Android jar artifact to hit Maven central. As a next best step I created the Maven Android SDK Deployer and things cruised along okay for a bit. And then out of the blue Robert Manning, from the awesome SQuirrel SQL Client project, contacted me about the status and issues with getting the jars into Maven central if they are built from the open source code drop. And with Robert things really moved.
Continue reading ‘Android Artifacts hit Maven Central’
