[JIRA] Commented: (NBANDROID-160) Project missing a lot of functionality found in Ant Project

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cowwoc commented on NBANDROID-160:
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> The most annoying thing is to maintain our own set of build scripts

Would these really change over time? On the flip side, it would allow 
end-users to customize the build process. For example, right now Proguard 
support is hard-coded into the build process but you might want to add other 
post-compile steps.

> It also means to lose ability to switch IDEs. 

That is a good point, though I would point out that in practice very few 
people switch IDEs in the middle of a project. If users are fine with this 
limitation for all other project types they should be okay with it for 
Android projects as well.

> At the end this is pragmatic choice. While there is a dedicated team at 
> Google working on Android tooling including Eclipse plugin this is just an 
> open source project with no commercial support.

I think you're right on this point. That being said, why can't you make the 
UI look more like J2SE projects and less like what is available in Eclipse? 
You can still use the Android SDK build support under the hood.

> Project missing a lot of functionality found in Ant Project
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>
>                 Key: NBANDROID-160
>                 URL: http://kenai.com/jira/browse/NBANDROID-160
>             Project: nbandroid
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: project
>    Affects Versions: 1.10
>            Reporter: cowwoc
>
> I've noticed that the Android project is missing a lot of functionality we 
> normally get for free in the Ant project. Couldn't you simply extend the 
> Ant project type?
> For example, why do the Libraries have to look so much different from what 
> we get in Ant?

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