Maven: The Complete Reference - 14.16. Tips and Tricks |
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Apart from the features of the Android Maven Plugin you have access to all the other Maven plugins to automate things like license header file checks, resource filtering and many more. A release build for an Android application needs to create an apk file that has been signed and zipaligned. In addition it is adviseable to run shrinking and obfuscation. All these steps can be done with the Maven Jarsigner Plugin, the Proguard Maven Plugin and the zipalign goal of the Android Maven Plugin. A sample configuration of a release build is available in the morseflash example application of the plugin samples. In order to use the Android Maven Plugin goals on the command line
with the short plugin name Snippet for settings.xml to enable short plugin name usage. <pluginGroups> <pluginGroup> com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2 </pluginGroup> </pluginGroups>
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