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 for building Android projects. Fortunately, the teams behind the Android Maven Plugin, and the Android Configurator for M2E have been hard at work to support these latest changes in the Android tools. If you have tried to run the Spring Android Samples recently, then you probably noticed the projects would not build. In this post, I will illustrate the configuration changes necessary to utilize the latest Maven plugins and Eclipse support in the Spring Android Showcase project.
Android Maven Plugin
As of version 3.0.0-alpha-11, The Maven Android Plugin now has a new name, and is now called the Android Maven Plugin. The latest version, 3.0.0-alpha-13 fixes the build issue with Android SDK r14.
Update the Plugin
To update your plugin version, make the following changes to the artifactId and version.
<plugin>
<groupId>com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2</groupId>
<artifactId>android-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0-alpha-13</version>
<configuration>
<sdk>
<platform>${android-platform}</platform>
</sdk>
<deleteConflictingFiles>true</deleteConflictingFiles>
<undeployBeforeDeploy>true</undeployBeforeDeploy>
</configuration>
<extensions>true</extensions>
</plugin>
Once modified, you can now run maven from the command line to build your project.
mvn clean install
Potential Build Errors
It is possible that your project will receive a few build errors when you try to build with the new plugin.
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
When I updated the Spring Android Showcase client, the build failed with the following:
[INFO] UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL ERROR:
[INFO] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
[INFO] at com.android.dx.ssa…
