Getting Started: Android Development with Gradle (without Android Studio)

Getting Started: Android Development with Gradle (without Android Studio).md

Getting Started: Android Development with Gradle (without Android Studio)

Install JDK

Open Terminal. Type javac -version and check your current JDK version. If you seem to have javac 1.7.* JDK version, you can skip this section.

• Open Termianl.
• Type sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk.

Download Android SDK (standalone tools)

Download the standalone SDK tools from official website.

Tip: I renamed my SDK tools directory to "sdk" and put it in to ~/dev/android/.

Add SDK Packages

• Open Terminal.
• Navigate to .../sdk-directory/tools/.
• Run ./android sdk.
• Add necessary SDK packages.

Set up PATH Environment variable

Open ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc in your text editor and add following lines.

export ANDROID_HOME=~/location/to/your/android/sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools/

Create Project

This will create the project with gradle.

android create project -p /location/to/MyProject -a MainActivity -k com.domain.myproject -t <target-id> -g -v 0.12.+

<target-id>: Type android list targets in Terminal to get all available sdks.

Build with Gradle

./gradlew build

Install Application to Device

./gradlew installDebug

Still having issues?
Open build.gradle and see if your gradle version (type ./gradlew --version in Terminal) is compatible with com.android.tools.build:gradle version. Read more

Or drop me a message @ talhashraf@gmail.com

Hi
How to manually configure Gradle to build an existing android project that is created without "android create project"?

thanks

android tool is deprecated and removed from android-sdk

The android tool is removed from latest versions of android sdk. In latest versions of android sdk you have to use sdkmanager command. To use android command you have to install stale version of android sdk and then this command will still work on your machine.