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14.4. Creating New Projects with the Android Maven Archetypes

14.4. Creating New Projects with the Android Maven Archetypes

When starting a fresh project it is easy to use the Maven Archetype Plugin to create a skeleton to start working with. Fortunately multiple archetypes for Android projects are available.

You can create a new android-quickstart project, which is similar to the helloflashlight example on the command line with

 mvn archetype:generate \
  -DarchetypeArtifactId=android-quickstart \
  -DarchetypeGroupId=de.akquinet.android.archetypes \
  -DarchetypeVersion=1.0.6 \
  -DgroupId=your.company \
  -DartifactId=my-android-application

Other archetypes available are an Android project including test execution with the archetypeArtifactId android-with-test-archetype and a project with release process configuration android-release-archetype.

Note

Many developmemt environments have a visual integration of creating new projects with a Maven archetype, so you can use that instead of the command line.