When building Android applications or libraries common practice is to save your artifacts to a local file storage or repo.
Beside your APK there are some additional artifacts you want/need to save, and you want gradle to do this. Most common ones are Javadoc, your source files and perhaps your proguard generated files like the mapping file.
I naturally wanted a Gradle task to handle this. So lets have a look as some tasks you may want to use.
Adding Javadoc archive tasks
The following will add tasks to generate Javadocs for each build type and assemble it into a jar archive .
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 | android.applicationVariants.all { variant -> project.task("${variant.name.capitalize()}Javadoc", type: Javadoc) { destinationDir = new File("$project.buildDir/javadoc/$variant.name") source = variant.javaCompile.source ext.androidJar = "${project.android.sdkDirectory}/platforms/${project.android.compileSdkVersion}/android.jar" classpath = project.files(variant.javaCompile.classpath.files) + project.files(ext.androidJar) options { linksOffline("http://d.android.com/reference", "${project.android.sdkDirectory}/docs/reference") links("http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/"); setMemberLevel(JavadocMemberLevel.PACKAGE) docEncoding = 'UTF-8' encoding = 'UTF-8' charSet = 'UTF-8' } exclude '**/BuildConfig.java' exclude '**/R.java' } project.task("generate${variant.name.capitalize()}JavadocJar", type: Jar, dependsOn: "${variant.name.capitalize()}Javadoc") { classifier 'javadoc' description = 'Assembles a jar archive containing the generated Javadoc API documentation of $variant.name.' destinationDir = new File("$project.buildDir/libs/") exclude '**/BuildConfig.class' exclude '**/R.class' from "$project.buildDir/javadoc/$variant.name" } } |
When added to your build.gradle file, generate your Javadoc jar archive from the command line with gradle generateReleaseJavadocJar.
Adding Source archive tasks
The following will add tasks to assemble a jar archive containing the Java sources.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | android.applicationVariants.all { variant -> project.task("generate${variant.name.capitalize()}SourcesJar", type: Jar) { classifier = 'sources' description = 'Assembles a jar archive containing the main sources of $variant.name..' destinationDir = new File("$project.buildDir/libs/") // exclude generated files exclude '**/BuildConfig.java' exclude '**/R.java' from variant.javaCompile.source } } |
When added to your build.gradle file, generate your Sources jar archive from the command line with gradle generateReleaseSourcesJar.
Adding Proguard archive tasks
The following will add tasks to assemble a zip archive containing the generated proguard files.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | android.applicationVariants.all { variant -> project.task("generate${variant.name.capitalize()}ProguardFilesJar", type: Zip) { classifier 'proguard' description = 'Assembles a jar archive containing the Proguard files of $variant.name..' destinationDir = new File("$project.buildDir/libs/") from "$project.buildDir/outputs/mapping" } } |
When added to your build.gradle file, generate your Proguard zip archive from the command line with gradle generateReleaseProguardFilesJar.
