New features/bug fixes for the specific release are
- New default value to include internal jars from aar libraries by default
- Don’t include internal libs from transitive AAR deps into an AAR
- Better doco for destinationAndroidManifest parameter
- Project META-INF artifacts are included in APK
- Support for specifying debug port - automatically forward JDWP connection
- Configurable encoding for publish mojo listing files
- Checkstyle - removed deprecated check
- Add NDK support for arm64-v8a APP_ABI
- Log warning about using dependencies conflicting with packaged libraries in android jar
- Allow AAR provided proguard configuration to be automatically integrated
- Updated Android SDK libraries 1.1.3 / 24.1.3
- Regex support for VersionGenerator used in AndroidManifest manipulations
For more details please check out the website:
https://github.com/simpligility/android-maven-plugin/blob/master/src/site/asciidoc/changelog.adoc
We now have a full set of recent releases to support Maven 2.2.1. Many thanks for Karl-Heinz who drives all these releases!
The problem loading core extensions from authenticated repos has been fixed. We'll have to wait until Maven 3.3.3 to fix the Wagon issue where the user-agent header is sent in duplicate.
An example of how to use the new core extension mechanism to have safe and efficient parallel builds: