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From: Joe Bowser <bowserj@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 13:57:18 -0700
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Subject: Re: Proof of Concept: Plugins as Android Modules
To: dev <dev@cordova.apache.org>
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I know, that's extremely annoying, and I would like to remove that sometime
in the future if possible.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 8:43 AM, Vladimir Kotikov (Akvelon) <
v-vlkoti@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Please disregard my point about CordovaLib excludes - I didn't notice tha=
t
> build.gradle is regenerated before every build
>
> -
> Best regards, Vladimir
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Kotikov (Akvelon) [mailto:v-vlkoti@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 6:39 PM
> To: dev@cordova.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Proof of Concept: Plugins as Android Modules
>
> Hi, Joe
>
> I've looked into your changes and did some quick testing. IMO they looks
> good apart some minor issues:
>
> - after adding a plugin and opening resultant project in Android studio I
> was unable to build the project w/ debug configuration - only release see=
ms
> to work. The error I'm getting is
>     Error:Module 'CordovaLib' has variant 'release' selected, but the
> module ''android'' depends on variant 'debug'
> From CLI everything seems to work fine.
>
> - I'm not very experienced in Gradle things, but looks like adding
> excludes to every plugin's subproject [1] - is not really required. At
> least I was able to build the generated project without these excludes.
> Moreover, the Gradle build output with and without these excludes is
> similar - no additional compilation of CordovaLib is performed
>
> - I had to manually update "buildToolsVersion" property in InappBrowser's
> build.gradle - perhaps we would need for a logic to update that property
> according to installed build tools version at build time?
>
> -
> [1]
> https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/compare/master...infil00p:frame=
work_fixes#diff-417ebeefa9eab114cf248463f6886bbaR103
> [2]
> https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/compare/master...infil00p:frame=
work_fixes
>
> -
> Best regards, Vladimir
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Bowser [mailto:bowserj@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 12:38 AM
> To: dev <dev@cordova.apache.org>
> Subject: Re: Proof of Concept: Plugins as Android Modules
>
> Bump! It'd be good to get some feedback on this sooner rather than later.
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 3:57 PM, julio cesar sanchez <
> jcesarmobile@gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I sadly can't contribute to this because I don't think I have enough
> > Android knowledge, but just wanted to answer on this topic as I feel
> > that is very important and I think this one and the previous ones you
> > sent related to this didn't get enough attention.
> > So, even if I can't personally help, maybe answering on the topic can
> > get some attention, or at least you can know that somebody read it and
> > support it.
> >
> >
> > 2016-06-14 22:58 GMT+02:00 Joe Bowser <bowserj@gmail.com>:
> >
> > > Hey
> > >
> > > Here's a proof of concept for Android Modules.  It works for cordova
> > > core plugins, but it's kinda brittle because I need to figure out
> > > how to
> > handle
> > > dependencies and excluding duplicate compilation in our tools.
> > >
> > > https://github.com/infil00p/cordova-android/tree/framework_fixes
> > > https://github.com/infil00p/cordova-plugin-inappbrowser/tree/aar_poc
> > >
> > > Surprisingly, the changes made are very minor to get this to work,
> > > and there's a lot of serious advantages we give.  That said, our
> > > Gradle
> > scripts
> > > are incredibly brittle, and we don't have the luxury of changing any
> > > execution order to try to get around excluding dependencies.
> > >
> > > I think it would be good if we could add in plugin.xml a way to
> > > exclude compilation of dependencies that are already included.
> > > Right now if you include a plugin that depends on the CordovaLib
> > > module in the project,
> > our
> > > plugin will install things twice.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any thoughts about this?  I really want this to be
> > > a lot less brittle before introducing this method of installing
> plugins.
> > >
> > > Joe
> > >
> >
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