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How can I specify location of debug keystore for Android ant debug builds?

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You should be able to specify the keystore to use with these properties key.store=/path/to/key.keystore key.alias=alias key.store.password=pass key.alias.password=pass Just pass the properties in to Ant. [EDIT] From the docs at http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/app-signing.html#setup The Android build tools provide a debug signing mode that makes it easier for you to develop and debug your application, while still meeting the … Read more

Build numbers: major.minor.revision

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The build_info.properties file: build.major.number=00 build.revision.number=00 build.minor.number=00 The build.xml file: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <project name=”project” default=”current-number”> <property file=”build_info.properties”/> <property name=”build.number” value=”${build.major.number}.${build.minor.number}.${build.revision.number}”/> <target name=”current-number”> <echo>Current build number:${build.number}</echo> </target> <target name=”compile”> <antcall target=”revision”></antcall> </target> <target name=”dist”> <antcall target=”minor”></antcall> </target> <target name=”revision”> <propertyfile file=”build_info.properties”> <entry key=”build.revision.number” type=”int” operation=”+” value=”1″ pattern=”00″/> </propertyfile> </target> <target name=”minor”> <propertyfile file=”build_info.properties”> <entry key=”build.minor.number” type=”int” … Read more

Generate manifest class-path from in Ant

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<path id=”build.classpath”> <fileset dir=”${basedir}”> <include name=”lib/*.jar”/> </fileset> </path> <pathconvert property=”manifest.classpath” pathsep=” “> <path refid=”build.classpath”/> <mapper> <chainedmapper> <flattenmapper/> <globmapper from=”*.jar” to=”lib/*.jar”/> </chainedmapper> </mapper> </pathconvert> <target depends=”compile” name=”buildjar”> <jar jarfile=”${basedir}/${test.jar}”> <fileset dir=”${build}” /> <manifest> <attribute name=”Main-Class” value=”com.mycompany.TestMain”/> <attribute name=”Class-Path” value=”${manifest.classpath}”/> </manifest> </jar> </target> For further information check out this article.

JAVA_HOME gets mangled by Maven

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Thats the down side of external links in an accepted answer. Codehaus shut down and thus the solution is gone. For reference here’s the content behind the link – you basically only need to copy the <dependencies>…</dependencies> block to your antrun plugin… The maven-antrun-plugin runs ant with JAVA_HOME set to the jre subdirectory of the … Read more

How to wrap an Ant build with Maven?

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You can use the maven-antrun-plugin to invoke the ant build. Then use the build-helper-maven-plugin to attach the jar produced by ant to the project. The attached artifact will be installed/deployed alongside the pom. If you specify your project with packaging pom, Maven will not conflict with the ant build. In the example below, the ant … Read more

generate jars with source code using Ant

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I would modify your jar task to include multiple filesets; one for the classes and one for the source files. <jar destfile=”${target.dir}/my-app.jar”> <fileset dir=”${target.dir}/classes” /> <fileset dir=”${src.dir}” includes=”**/*.java”/> </jar> Packaging should be treated as a separate concern from compiling. This will give you more flexibility. For example, you may want to add other filesets to … Read more