Deprecate APKLIB - Replaced by AAR

[Shusshu]

I think we should deprecated apklib in the next release because when someone has issues with apklib we all seem to tell him to use Aar instead.

If you all agree then we can merge this.

[mosabua]

I agree... by the time we release 5.0 I think apklib and ndk stuff should be gone

[william-ferguson-au]

And APK_SOURCE (if it is still in there).

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On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Manfred Moser [email protected]
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Merged #543
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[mosabua]

I think we removed that already.. but yes...

[rtack]

what about poor ADT eclipse users without proper Aar support? See https://github.com/rgladwell/m2e-android/issues/177 and https://github.com/kingargyle/andmore/issues/11
Is it such a burden to keep apklib support until aars work using either m2eandroid or andmore as well?

[Shusshu]

Apklib is still there. Just deprecated and will be removed in the future
when we are confident everyone has moved on.
On 17 Dec 2014 19:59, "Raphael Ackermann" [email protected] wrote:

what about poor ADT eclipse users without proper Aar support? See
rgladwell/m2e-android#177
https://github.com/rgladwell/m2e-android/issues/177 and
kingargyle/andmore#11 https://github.com/kingargyle/andmore/issues/11
Is it such a burden to keep apklib support until aars work using either
m2eandroid or andmore as well?

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[mosabua]

We will definitely keep apklib until aar it well established including working integration with ADT/Andmore.. all good @rtack

[skauss]

We still use apklib because aar didn't work with our project.
In case you use aar in an aar library the classes are not available inside eclipse, This make aar not usable in eclipse.
In case you deprecated apklib support we have to move to Android Studio and gradle... What I not like to do because I love Eclipse and use this IDE also in other project's than Android projects.

[mosabua]

Again to clarify.. we will NOT remove apklib support until aar is an equivalent replacement for Eclipse and IntelliJ users. In fact we will probably work with the Andmore project, Me2 and M2eAndroid ... and we would love for you to help as well.

[kingargyle]

Yes the Andmore will make AAR support one of its priorities. We are in the middle of package renaming right now, and as soon as we can get a p2 site published for developers to start migrating plugins to use the new package names we'll let everyone know.