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.
