I wanted to work on another Android app, one that will need to read an RSS feed. Upon looking up libraries, I came across android-rss.
Didn't support loading as an Eclipse project (easily), so I decided to look into using Maven to manage Android project dependencies.
This led me to the maven-android-plugin
project. It mostly talked about using the command-line android tool to work with projects, which I haven't done before. All of my work has been via Eclipse. I decided to look for a maven plugin for Android projects in Eclipse.
This led me to this plugin which needed to be installed via Eclipse Marketplace.
Googling about how to install the marketplace, I selected the Eclipse Juno update site, and installed the Marketplace. I restarted.
I installed the plugin, then started following some of the instructions on the site. I decided to try some of the instructions from the Maven Android Plugin page.
After running mvn clean install
, I got a recommendation to install additional android sdks using android update sdk --no-ui --obsolete --force
. I was installing android v 1.1 before I figured I should just abort it.
I tried the mvn clean install
and it worked this time. Having confirmed the plugin was working, I continued following the instructions on the main m2e Android page.
I created a new project in Eclipse, adding the appropriate archetype.