How to convert an existing Android project with Google API 4.2 to Maven

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I'm trying to use Maven for new projects, but this thing is confusing me at all.

In all examples they only use the Android default APIs, but I need the Google API as my application uses Google Maps. How can I use Google APIs?

This is an existing Android Project made on Eclipse (now I'm trying to use IntelliJ IDEA) and I'd like to start using Maven, so how can I convert the existing Project to Maven?

Thanks.

This question is related to http://stackoverflow.com/q/2449461/130224 — reprogrammer, Dec 06 '12 at 23:48
Sorry about one of my questions being related to an existing one. — Juliano Nunes Silva Oliveira, Dec 07 '12 at 02:27

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 06 '12 at 23:46

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To convert an Eclipse project to a Maven project, select the Java project in Eclipse and popup the context menu, then select "Configure" > "Convert to Maven Project".

answered Dec 06 '12 at 23:46

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This is causing an error. I cannot change the packaging attribute to APK and the google android dependency is not recognized. – Juliano Nunes Silva Oliveira Dec 07 '12 at 16:15
I'm getting this on Eclipse: "Project build error: Unknown packaging: apk" and "Missing artifact com.google.android:android:jar:17" – Juliano Nunes Silva Oliveira Dec 08 '12 at 12:08
That seems like a different issue. See http://stackoverflow.com/q/11023252 and http://stackoverflow.com/q/10610564. – reprogrammer Dec 09 '12 at 17:43
Some description of how to fill in the resulting form would be helpful. Does "version" matter? What about "Packaging"? – Brian White May 24 '15 at 01:21

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 06 '12 at 23:54

The maven-android-plugin aka android-maven-plugin talks about how to maven-ize your android project. http://code.google.com/p/maven-android-plugin/wiki/GettingStarted
The Add-Ons such as maps, usb, gcm you'd need to use the maven-android-sdk-deployer. The documents spells out the exact xml to use in pom.xml https://github.com/mosabua/maven-android-sdk-deployer

Festus Tamakloe · Answer 3 · 2012-12-06T23:51:17.077

For the question about Google Api just put the following code in the application tag of your AndroidManifest file

<uses-library android:name="com.google.android.maps" />

for the second question, i recommend you to make first the conversion in eclipse following this tutorial http://steveliles.github.com/converting_eclipse_adt_android_projects_to_build_with_maven.html and after that you can import your maven project into IntelliJ IDEA

How to convert an existing Android project with Google API 4.2 to Maven

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