Installing an automatic build process for your projects is very common today and best practice. In the java world Maven is a very popular build tool and has proven its matureness over the years. In this blog post we will show you the benefits of a Maven build and how we can utilize them for javascript projects. Finally we present two maven archetypes for creating ready to go fully mavenized javascript projects for your first steps.
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Starting Android application development with Apache Maven
Despite of not being in widespread use in the Android world, Apache Maven is a great tool to develop Android applications. Maven has a lot of advantages relevant for Android application development:
- It can be integrated on a continuous integration server, allowing continuous testing and nightly-build delivery
- It provides a strict release process avoiding errors and inconsistencies. The resulting APK are ‘marketplace-ready’
- It also provides a common way to build and package the applications
- It supports modular-development allowing the integration of classes and resources from others projects
This post explores how to quickly start developing Android applications using Maven. It presents three archetypes allowing getting a running application in less than 2 minutes!
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