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From: Steven Gill <stevengill97@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:18:13 -0700
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Subject: Re: Discuss Android plugin compatibility problem
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Would this be added to plugin.xml?

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Mefire O. <ommenjik@microsoft.com> wrote:

> +1 on moving deps to gradle.
>
> On Jul 16, 2015 9:37 AM, Carlos Santana <csantana23@gmail.com> wrote:
> you mean the scripts in cordova-android right? then yes
>
> +1 create jira bug, enhancements etc.. if doesn't get track it doesn't get
> done
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:26 PM Joe Bowser <bowserj@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there a bug created for this? It sounds like we should have the local
> > scripts handle dependency adding on Android.
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 9:14 AM Carlos Santana <csantana23@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > +1 gradle declared dependencies only, cli to warn users about plugins
> > > having libraries that will conflict, future is gradle no ANT I'm ok to
> > > start deprecating ant going forward.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:27 AM Sergey Grebnov (Akvelon) <
> > > v-segreb@microsoft.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi guys, I want to raise the following question - what we should
> > > > recommend  plugin developers to avoid 'Multiple dex files defined'
> > issue
> > > on
> > > > Android, for example [3]
> > > >
> > > > UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION:
> > > >         com.android.dex.DexException: Multiple dex files define
> > > >
> > >
> >
> Landroid/support/v4/accessibilityservice/AccessibilityServiceInfoCompat$AccessibilityServiceInfoVersionImpl;
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > To reproduce this problem you can add both Facebook [1] and
> > PushPlugin[2]
> > > > and then build android platform.
> > > >
> > > > This happens due to we still use jars to add plugin dependencies, but
> > > > there are several very popular among them (like android-support,
> gson)
> > so
> > > > we bring the same dependencies several times so build fails.
> > > >
> > > > I think we should start recommending people to start adding
> > > > utility/common/popular dependencies via corresponding gradle
> > > configuration
> > > > (not using libs folder) as the only way to support multiple plugins
> > which
> > > > could rely on the same dependency. In this case gradle will be able
> to
> > > > handle this situation correctly using its smart Dependency
> > > > Management/Versioning logic [4].
> > > >
> > > > For example,
> > > >
> > > > <source-file src="src/android/com/plugin/android-support-v13.jar"
> > > > target-dir="libs/" />
> > > > ->
> > > > <framework src="com.android.support:support-v13:21.0.0" />
> > > >
> > > > Disadvantage of this approach is that Ant build won't be supported (I
> > > know
> > > > some tricky/more complex way to correctly support both Ant and Gradle
> > > but I
> > > > don't think it is worth adding more complexity for plugins developers
> > > just
> > > > to continue supporting Ant).
> > > >
> > > > Guys, any recommendations/thoughts how we should proceed in this
> > > > situation? Maybe someone has better solution for this problem?
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://github.com/Wizcorp/phonegap-facebook-plugin
> > > > [2] https://github.com/phonegap-build/PushPlugin
> > > > [3] https://github.com/Wizcorp/phonegap-facebook-plugin/issues/1028
> > > > [4]
> > https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/dependency_management.html
> > > >
> > > > Thx!
> > > > Sergey
> > > >
> > > >
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