Create avian based iOS app with Gradle or Maven?

[jpro technologies AG]

Hi,

is there any gradle (or Maven) plugin to build a avian based iOS or Android app?

Best restards,

Tobi

[Terasgr]

I have actually created myself a maven-based test project but it still needs fine tuning, although it is working.
The biggest "issue" is that it needs some native commands to be executed, thus it is not pure Java, nor OS independent.

Maybe if the Avian developers find it interesting, and discuss things like maven artifacts and especially the idea to cache avian files, I'd be happy to share my experience.

[Joel Dice .]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Terasgr <tera...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe if the Avian developers find it interesting, and discuss things like
> maven artifacts and especially the idea to cache avian files, I'd be happy
> to share my experience.

There have been previous efforts to publish artifacts to jfrog.org and
use them in Gradle projects, but I don't think anyone outside of
ReadyTalk (the company where Avian was originally developed) used
them. Part of the challenge is that there are hundreds of ways to
build Avian depending on the flags you pass to Make, each reflecting
some specific use-case, so it's hard to know which builds would be
most useful to publish.

I've always felt like Avian is a build-from-source kind of project and
that prebuilt binaries wouldn't be particularly useful or popular, but
I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

[Terasgr]

Under the URL https://github.com/teras/avian-hello-ios-maven you can find a mavenized version of the hello-ios project. The source code is the same as the original hello-ios project. See the README file for more details.

Hope this helps!