Updated Maven Support for Android Projects
It has been a while since my initial posts on using Maven with Spring Android, and the state of the tools has changed somewhat. With the recent release of the SDK for Android 4.0 and revision 14 of the Android Development Tools (ADT), Google made several changes that impacted the third party Maven plugin support Read more…
Clean Code in Android Applications
Let's say you wake up one morning, and think, "Hey, I'm going to build an Android app today." First off, good choice! As of the end of June, 500,000 Android devices were being activated every day, outpacing even the iPhone. That means there is a large, potential audience for your app. Additionally, Android is built Read more…
Spring Android and Maven (Part 2)
In Spring Android and Maven (Part 1), I described how to build an Android application from the command-line using Maven. In this post, I will show you how to build an Android application with Maven dependency management from the Eclipse IDE. The application will also showcase the latest features in Spring Android 1.0.0.M2, which was Read more…
Spring Android and Maven (Part 1)
We recently announced the M1 release of Spring Android, and with that release some questions have arisen around how to build an Android application utilizing the Spring Android Rest Template and Spring Android Commons Logging libraries. Google provides several methods for compiling an Android application, including SDK command line tools, and the ADT (Android Development Read more…
