Android Maven Plugin 3.7.0 released

[Manfred Moser <ma...@simpligility.com>]

The Android Maven Plugin team is pleased to announce the release of
version 3.7.0 of the plugin.

This is another LARGER release with a lot of NDK related features as well
as experimental support for aar package creation.

Please take into account that the sdk platform configuration parameter no
longer supports platform, only API level works from now on. For NDK users
the keyword 'all' is no longer supported for ndk architectures, you have
to explicitly list them.

Also note that the generated documentation website is now hosted on github

http://jayway.github.io/maven-android-plugin/

New features/bug fixes are

- Updated builder library version to 0.5.6
- Don't delete nativeArtifactFile if its the same as destFile
- Support for maven property maven.test.error.ignore
- Use of constant for apk and apklib instead of hardcoded string
- Experimental support for consuming and creating aar files
- SdkLib? and ApkBuilder? cleanup
- Upgraded to builder 0.5.7 and added all dependencies from SDK in version
22.2.0
- Support for multiarch so dependencies and Multiple native architecture
support
- Adding Native Libs in apk
- Make use of "aaptExtraArgs" in "generate-sources" goal
- Release process changes to use nexus-staging-maven-plugin
- Plugin site changed from Google SVN repo to Github pages

When upgrading please ensure to check the change log for further details:

http://code.google.com/p/maven-android-plugin/wiki/Changelog

We would like to thank the contributors to this release for their valuable
help and invite you all to help us out as well:

Specifically for this release we would like to thank the following
contributors for their awesome work.

- Benoit Billington https://github.com/Shusshu
- Mark Riley http://markriley.net
- Stéphane Nicolas https://github.com/stephanenicolas
- Joonas Javanainen http://gekkio.fi/
- Johan Lindquist https://github.com/johanlindquist
- Charles Harley
- Tadeas Kriz https://github.com/TadeasKriz
- Manfred Moser http://www.simpligility.com

Documentation, issue tracker and more can be found on the plugin website at

http://code.google.com/p/maven-android-plugin/

For a primer to use the plugin check out the Android Development chapter
in Maven: The Complete Reference

http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/android-dev.html

Please join the Maven Android Mailing List for relevant discussions:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/maven-android-developers

Enjoy

Manfred Moser
http://www.simpligility.com

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