[Android] ANT: Build In Command Line

1. Ant Docs
1. Build Android Project With Ant
   http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/other-ide.html
   
2. Ant Manual
   
3. Ant Build Files Format
   http://blogold.chinaunix.net/u/9577/showart.php?id=2487995
4. Andorid build.xml
   $ANDROID_HOME/tools/ant/build.xml
   
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2. Install Ant
1. Download Ant from pay attention: Don't install Ant with "apt-get install ant" on Ubuntu, or other similar automatical way on other Linux platforms, otherwise, required packages such as Java will be installed also, that results in Ant can't works, following error messages will diaplay when we build application using that incorect Ant:
       - "when create .dex will fail"
       - "no classfiles specified"
2. Unzip downloaded Ant package.
3. Export JAVA_HOME to environment whose value is jdk path
3. Buld Process
1. Create build.xml
• Create A New Project
  For Old Android SDK
  $ activityCreator.py --out myproject my.package.name.myActivityName
  
  For New Android SDK
  $ android create project -p ...
  
  
• Update An Existing Project
  For Old Android SDK:
  $ activityCreator.py --out myproject  //AndroidManifest.xml
  
  For New Android SDK
  $ android update project -p
  
  
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2. Build & Package With Ant
   You can get the help info of ant with exuecuting the following command:
   $ ant --help
   
   Generally, you can build and package project with
   $ant release
   or
   $ant debug
   
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4. Support Multiple Partners
1. Prepare config.xml
   
   
   
   
       Build project for different partner
    
      
   
      
      
      
      
      
   
      
          
          
   
          
              
          
   
          
                       match='android.versionCode="(.*)"'
               replace='android.versionCode="${ver.code}"'
               byline="false">
          
                       match='android.versionName="(.*)"'
               replace='android.versionName="${ver.name}"'
               byline="false">
   
                       match='package="(.*)"'
               replace='package="${pkg.name}"'
               byline="false">
          
          
          
              
              
              
          
   
          
              
              
              
          
      
      
   
2. Prepare Files
   $ ant -f config.xml -Dpartner.dir="xxx" -Dpkg.name="xxx" -Dver.code="xxx" -Dver.name="xxx" preparefiles
   
3. Create build.xml
4. Build
   $ ant debug
   or
   $ ant release
   
5. Ref
• Android: Deploying multiple targets from one project http://ulrichscheller.blogspot.com/2009/10/android-deploying-multiple-targets-from.html
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6. Comments:
   
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