Cradle to the Gradle

Building Android without the migraine, using Android Studio, Gradle and Genymotion.

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1. Cradle to the Gradle Building Android Without the Migraine @rdallman10
2. Hello darkness, my old friend
3. R cannot be resolved to a type...
4. Dependencies missing...
5. Fix project properties…
6. Egit says you have unresolved conflicts...
7. PC load letter… What the $#@! does that mean?
8. Eclipse, meet your maker
9. A UI for this millenium
10. Version control baked in. And it works!
11. Doesn’t randomly freeze. And it’s in beta!
12. Will still suck all your RAM. But it tells you how much!
13. All the “great IDE features.” And it’s not Eclipse!
14. OK, real talk on some features
15. Preview all screen sizes
16. Jump from Activity to its Layout
17. Jump from Layout to its Activity
18. Jump from Fragment to its Layout
19. Jump from Layout to its Fragment
20. It’s &%$*ing life changing
21. Some Useful commands: Jump to File: ⌘⇧O Jump to Class: ⌘O Run: ^⌘R Find All (Project): ⌘⇧F ...Hover and it’ll tell you
22. http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html
23. Now to the real cool stuff
24. Let’s talk dependency management
25. Maybe you did this? (guilty)
26. Maybe you did this? (guilty again)
27. And what do we say?
28. No more carrying around dependencies! All we need is a build.gradle file
29. The dayman cometh
30. So let’s talk build.gradle
31. AndroidManifest.xml gets stupid-er
32. Versioning / SDK moves to build.gradle
33. How many bloody DSL’s are there?
34. It’s just Groovy, baby.
35. ...So enough of that.
36. Why should I make the switch?
38. Ever seen this?
39. https://gist.github.com/rdallman/7314868
40. Build [release] from command line
41. Take that, Eclipse
42. For you heavy readers: http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide
43. Also makes collaborating easy.
44. Clone (or otherwise acquire) project source:
45. Just import build.gradle file
46. Also automagically sets up VCS and remotes
47. One last thing…
48. Poll: how long does this normally take you?
49. Maybe you’re sick of always carrying one of these around
50. Walk towards the light... http://www.genymotion.com/
51. Integrates right into Android Studio (plugin)
52. Make the switch. For Android. For Sanity. Let me know if you need any help! reed@auburn.edu
53. Android Studio: http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html Android Gradle: http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide Versioning build.gradle: https://gist.github.com/rdallman/7314868 Find maven dependencies: http://gradleplease.appspot.com/ Genymotion: http://www.genymotion.com/ Link Summary (+goodies):