Masa: Maven Plug-ins for Android development

I was tipped by Shane Isbell about Masa which is a project developing and providing Maven plug-ins for Android development. The currently released version 1.1 supports Android SDK 1.5. The project also provides a Maven repository at address http://repository.slideme.org/nexus/content/groups/public/. I will try to use the Maven plug-ins and report about my experiences.

Thank you Shane! You can read more about Masa and other Android related storied from Shane's blog.

Maven Plug-in for Android Development

If you are a Maven fanboy (or just a plain user), there is a Google code project developing and providing a Maven plug-in for Android development. The plug-in lets you to build Android application projects (apk) with Maven and with minimal configuration. The plug-in project has also produced a decent Getting Started Guide. In addition, since the project deploys to Maven Central, you do not need to bother to configure any repositories of your own.

I have used Maven in some past Java projects at work. Since my own experiences in using Maven have been mostly positive, I plan to take this Maven plug-in into test use.