Android Maven Plugin 4.0.0 released

[Manfred Moser (simpligility)]

The Android Maven Plugin team is pleased to announce the release of version 4.0.0 of the plugin:

<plugin>

  <groupId>com.simpligility.maven.plugins</groupId>

  <artifactId>android-maven-plugin</artifactId>

  <version>4.0.0</version>

</plugin>

A celebratory blog post with some background is available at 

http://www.simpligility.com/2014/11/android-maven-plugin-4-0-0-ships/

New features/bug fixes for the specific release are

• Migrated some documentation from the old Google Code site
  
• Fix for aar and jar dependency mix and related resolving
  
• Fixes to proguard and multidex related processing
  
• Documentation for shading commons-codec to allow usage of newer version
  
• Custom exclude filter to ProGuardMojo
  
• Fixes to resource files in sample projects to allow builds to pass with new SDK
  
• Always honor dexArguments parameters
  
• Downgraded runtime requirements to Maven 3.0.4
  
• Examples documentation
  
• Moved Emma analysis to process-classes phase
  
• When upgrading please ensure to check the changelog for further details:
  

https://github.com/simpligility/android-maven-plugin/blob/master/src/site/asciidoc/changelog.adoc

We would like to thank the contributors to this release for their valuable help and invite you all to help us out as well:

Specifically for this release we would like to thank the following contributors for their awesome work.

Core Committers

• Benoit Billington https://github.com/Shusshu
  
• Manfred Moser http://www.simpligility.com
• Malachi de AElfweald https://github.com/malachid
• Johan Lindquist https://github.com/johanlindquist
  
• William Ferguson http://github.com/william-ferguson-au
  

Committers for this release

• Manfred Moser http://www.simpligility.com
  
• Hoyt Summers Pittman https://github.com/secondsun
  
• Łukasz Suski https://github.com/lsuski
  
• Matthias Stevens https://github.com/mstevens83
  
• Csaba Kozák https://github.com/WonderCsabo
  
• Dmitry Berezhnoy https://github.com/deadmoto
  

We would also like to thank for the help we received from the Maven community members and everybody else out there for any help we received in our issue tracker and beyond.

All merges and release builds and a whole bunch of other changes done by 

Manfred Moser http://www.simpligility.com

Documentation, issue tracker and more can be found on the plugin websites at

https://github.com/simpligility/android-maven-plugin/

http://simpligility.github.io/android-maven-plugin/
http://code.google.com/p/maven-android-plugin/

Specifically look at our samples project, which are now located in the plugin codebase itself in /src/test/projects 

http://simpligility.github.io/android-maven-plugin/examples.html

Please join the Maven Android Mailing List for relevant discussions:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/maven-android-developers

Enjoy and congratulations to everyone involved. 

Manfred Moser
http://www.simpligility.com