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Re: [andmore-dev] How out of date is Andmore
So at worse, you're going to get gradle building and not using the JDT build output, taking a few seconds longer each time you launch. I think that's the starting point though.

I have lots of experience calling out to external tools to do builds and launch. I have the Android command-line tools running, at least for build, install, and launch using 'android' and adb, including creating a new gradle-based project using android create project. They're are a bit sloppy, e.g. it grabs a really old version of gradle. But it gives a start.

Anyway, I'll have a quick and demo ready for EclipseCon of this. I need it to show off my IoT toolchain. If it's dumb, we can simply drop it and refocus on the existing clone. (Sorry, it's not really a fork since we can't simply apply updates to it). I think at the end of the day, it's going to be about the same amount of work.

- Doug.

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 5:18 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Neither the JDT nor Gradle plugins are currently flexible enough to support
Google's use of Gradle afaik.

If you find a way to make it work I'm all ears!

/max

Crazy thought of the day and the reason I can't get to sleep tonight: Start
over. From scratch. Toss the legacy and create a new set of plug-ins that
use Gradle off the bat, focus on the using the LaunchBar to launch, blend
in with the other IDE plug-ins. Steal stuff from the code we forked from
ADT that we figure we couldn't do a better job of, like the layout editor.
Start small, support basic use cases and grow from there. Make it a real
community thing built by the community, give them a real sense of ownership
over it.

I'm going to give this some though. I'm heavily into building IDE mode
lately with the work I've done with the LaunchBar and Qt and Arduino build
and launch support in CDT. All that is fresh on my mind. Just need to
figure out how to set up JDT properly. I think it can be done and done
well. I'll see if I call my own bluff before you guys do :). At the very
least, I'm going to start prototyping and see where it leads.

  • Doug.

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Doug Schaefer cdtdoug@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hey gang,

I have to apologize, but a year or so later I'm finally getting around to
trying out Andmore looking for things to fix up. It turns out to be pretty
easy to find things that are broken.

So my first question comes as I try to create a new project targeting my
Priv which is 5.1.1 which is API 22. The layout editor complains "This
version of the rendering library is more recent than your version of ADT
plug-in. Please update ADT plug-in." And I see bug 462620
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=462620 stating that we
don't actually support that level and 23.

Have we updated Andmore with the latest patches to ADT? ADT is clearly
evolving at least a little to keep up with API releases. What is our plan
to keep up with it? Is it as simple as seeing what they've done and
applying the same code fixes albeit with the new package names?

To take that thought even further, did we really hurt ourselves by
changing the package names, and thus file paths, in the code making it
almost near impossible to keep up? I fully expect Google to keep ADT at
least up to date with API releases which means we will need to update
Andmore as well.

I love the fact I can easily clean up things in Andmore that violate
Eclipse IDE UX especially when combined with other plug-ins for Web and IoT
development. But it's really unusable if we can't keep it up to date easily
with API releases.

Thoughts on how we can fix this? Do we need to redo the fork and keep it
as a fork and not update so much?

Thanks!
Doug.

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