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Android plugin for Gradle, revision 1.3.0 (July 2015)
Dependencies:
|
Minimum version |
Default version |
Notes |
| Gradle |
2.2.1 |
2.2.1 |
To learn more, see updating Gradle. |
| SDK Build Tools |
21.1.1 |
21.1.1 |
Install or configure SDK Build Tools. |
General Notes:
-
Added support for the com.android.build.threadPoolSize
property to control the Android task thread pool size from
the gradle.properties file or the command line. The
following example sets this property to 4.
-Pcom.android.build.threadPoolSize=4
- Set the default build behavior to exclude
LICENSE and LICENSE.txt
files from APKs. To include these files in an APK, remove these files from the
packagingOptions.excludes property in the build.gradle file.
For example:
android {
packagingOptions.excludes = []
}
android {
packagingOptions.excludes.clear()
}
- Added the
sourceSets task to inspect the set of all available source sets.
- Enhanced unit test support to recognize multi-flavor and
build variant source folders. For example, to test an app with multi-flavors
flavor1 and flavorA with the Debug build type,
the test source sets are:
- test
- testFlavor1
- testFlavorA
- testFlavor1FlavorA
- testFlavor1FlavorADebug
Android tests already recognized multi-flavor source folders.
- Improved unit test support to:
- Run
javac on main and test sources, even if the useJack
property is set to true in your build file.
- Correctly recognize dependencies for each build type.
- Added support for specifying instrumentation test-runner arguments from the command line.
For example:
./gradlew connectedCheck
-Pandroid.testInstrumentationRunnerArguments.size=medium
-Pandroid.testInstrumentationRunnerArguments.class=TestA,TestB
Added support for arbitrary additional Android Asset Packaging Tool (AAPT) parameters
in the build.gradle file. For example:
android {
aaptOptions {
additionalParameters "--custom_option", "value"
}
}
android {
aaptOptions {
additionalParameters += listOf("--custom_option", "value")
}
}
- Added support for a
test APK module as a separate test module, using the
targetProjectPath and targetVariant properties to set the APK
path and target variant.
Note: A test APK module does not support product
flavors and can only target a single variant. Also, Jacoco is not supported yet.
- Added resource name validation before merging resources.
- When building an AAR (Android ARchive) package for library modules, do not provide an
automatic
@{applicationId} placeholder in the
manifest merger settings.
Instead, use a different placeholder, such as @{libApplicationId} and
provide a value for it if you want to include application Ids in the archive library.
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Last updated 2025-08-21 UTC.
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