This projects provides several Maven archetypes for Android. Those archetypes allows to quickly bootstrap a Maven project to develop an android application.

These artifacts are based on the android-maven-plugin (http://code.google.com/p/maven-android-plugin/). It currently uses the 3.0.0 version.

The quickstart archetype creates a simple android application ready to be deployed on an android device. It's a pretty simple way to initiate an android project:

mvn archetype:generate \
  -DarchetypeArtifactId=android-quickstart \
  -DarchetypeGroupId=de.akquinet.android.archetypes \
  -DarchetypeVersion=1.0.7 \
  -DgroupId=your.company \
  -DartifactId=my-android-application

You can also set three optional properties :

• The created 'package' with '-Dpackage=your.company.android'. By default it uses the given groupId.
• The Android emulator's name to use with '-Demulator=my-avd'. If none specified the property will be ignored in the pom file.
• The targeted Android platform with '-Dplatform=7'. The Android SDK version will be automatically fetched to fit the corresponding API level. By default, it uses 7 (android 2.1).

Once generated, the application is ready to be built and deployed. Start an android emulator, or plug an Android dev phone, and launch:

cd my-android-application
mvn clean install android:deploy

The application will be built and deployed on the device.

This archetype creates a multi-module project containing an android application and a project testing this application (integration tests using instrumentation).

mvn archetype:generate \
  -DarchetypeArtifactId=android-with-test \
  -DarchetypeGroupId=de.akquinet.android.archetypes \
  -DarchetypeVersion=1.0.7 \
  -DgroupId=com.foo.bar \
  -DartifactId=my-android-project \
  -Dpackage=com.foo.bar.android

The 'package' value is optional (by default use the groupId). You can also set the targeted Android platform with '-Dplatform=x'. By default, it use 7 (android 2.1)

Once generated, the application is ready to be built and tested. Start an android emulator, or plug an Android dev phone, and launch:

cd my-android-project
mvn clean install

The application will be built, then the integration-tests will be built and executed on the Android device.

This archetype extends android-with-test with release management.

mvn archetype:generate \
  -DarchetypeArtifactId=android-release \
  -DarchetypeGroupId=de.akquinet.android.archetypes \
  -DarchetypeVersion=1.0.7 \
  -DgroupId=com.foo.bar \
  -DartifactId=my-android-project \
  -Dpackage=com.foo.bar.android

The 'package' value is optional (by default use the groupId). You can also set the targeted Android platform with '-Dplatform=x'. By default, it use 7 (android 2.1)

Once generated, the application is ready to be built and tested. Start an android emulator, or plug an Android dev phone, and launch:

cd my-android-project
mvn clean install

The application will be built, then the integration-tests will be built and executed on the Android device.

When you release your application, it will generate a signed, zipaligned and ProGuard-processed apk. You will have to add a profile to your settings.xml containing the signing informations:

<profile>
  <id>android-release</id>
  <properties>
    <sign.keystore>/path/to/keystore</sign.keystore>
    <sign.alias>key alias</sign.alias>
    <sign.storepass>keystore password</sign.storepass>
    <sign.keypass>key password</sign.keypass>
  </properties>
</profile>

or directly pass those properties through the command line:

mvn release:prepare
mvn release:perform -Dsign.keystore=/path/to/keystore \
                    -Dsign.alias=key-alias \
                    -Dsign.storepass=keystore-password \
                    -Dsign.keypass=key-password
mvn release:clean

The archetype contains a test key store which MUST NOT BE USED IN PRODUCTION. However you can use it for testing:

mvn clean install -Prelease \
-Dsign.keystore=PATH_OF_THE_PROJECT/my-android-project/test-key.keystore \
-Dsign.alias=mykey \
-Dsign.storepass=testtest \
-Dsign.keypass=testtest

Be aware that Android cannot re-deploy artifacts using a different key, so be sure to undeploy all artifacts before running the release.

You can change the default maven-android-plugin version by specifying the 'android-plugin-version' parameter.

The android-archetype-project is an open source project licensed under the Apache License 2.0. It is founded by akquinet

• As the archetypes used the new archetype format, they don't work with the deprecated goal 'archetype:create'