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quittle / bazel_android_sdk_downloader

Drop-in replacement for the Bazel build system's Android repository rules to automate the downloading and installation of the Android SDK
Apache License 2.0
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development dead end? #2

Open BrianEdmonds opened 11 months ago

BrianEdmonds commented 11 months ago

I really like what this project was doing. I strongly dislike having to deal with the Android SDK outside of Bazel, and feel it should just be a dependency of the build. Did it run into problems beyond lack of interest or time? Are you aware of any other efforts that carried on from it, or were trying similar things in parallel?

quittle commented 11 months ago

Aw, thanks. I too was annoyed that you need to do stuff outside of Bazel. That felt wrong ideologically so I did what I could to pull it into the build to simplify getting set up locally as well as CI.

I believe that I heard something like this was being built into the Android Gradle Plugin a few years ago but that would be part of official tooling.

I dropped development on this project for a bunch of reasons but it mainly comes down to my stopping usage of Bazel altogether. It worked fine, but Bazel was moving so fast and breaking starlark so often that I gave up maintaining against an evolving target. No reason I known of that it couldn't be revived though.

I'm not aware of any alternatives, forks or spiritual successors.