Continuous integration for androids

1. Continuous Integration of androids Kirill Zotin 19.12.2012
2. • 1 click build • Every commit is built and tested • Fast feedback • Static code analysis • 1st step to Continuous Deployment Continuous integration
3. Build process
4. Ant • 'Make' for Java • Imperative (tell how to compile, run tests, package) • No lifecycle support • No conventions • Easy to extend
5. • Declarative (describe result) • Default conventions, lifecycles, archetypes • Dependencies management! • Repositories! • More difficult :(
6. Limitations • Dependency management • IDE integration • Different builds of same project (Prod/test, proguard on/off, multiple apks) • Maven: Artifacts pushed to Remotes with delays
7. • The best of 2 worlds! • Power and flexibility of ANT • Dependency management and conventions of Maven • Groovy DSL
8. gradle-android-plugin Goal - easy to: • Reuse code and resources • Create several variants of an application, either for multi-apk distribution or for different flavors of an application • Extend and configure the build
9. gradle-android-plugin Current limitations: • No IDE integration • No support for Renderscript • No support of NDK • No support for Proguard • No Lint integration • Etc...
10. gradle-android-plugin Product Flavors + Build Types = Build variants
11. Demo time!
12. Distribute • Email • Dropbox / Drive • TestFlight / Launchpad / ... • Repository managers (Nexus, Archiva)
13. Thanks! Questions? Suggestions? ;) http://bit.ly/gdgdnipro