How to run Android application then you use Maven in your project

Published by Igor Khrupin on

Then i first tried use Maven in my Android projects i have some discomfort then run my applications with

mvn clean install android:deploy

and then all is successful i can see my app bringing to front of my device which i can see then run standard Android apps with Run As..–>Android Aplication in Eclipse.

This instruction will works only in Linux. If you use Windows you need to rewrite some scripts according to your OS shell script language

I find some solution of this little problem.
First you need Exec Maven Plugin existing in your pom.xml

<plugin>
    <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <configuration>
        <executable>${basedir}/scripts/run_app.sh</executable>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Next create scripts dir in your project. That dir  need to heve run_app.sh bash file with next content:

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n your.app.package/.YourMainActivity

Go to scripts dir in your terminal and make this file executable by all with

sudo chmod '777' run_app.sh

That all. Next you need to execute next in your terminal then located in project root dir (same level as pom.xml)

mvn clean install android:deploy; mvn exec:exec

Hope it will useful for you

Project you can download below.
Just untar and import as Existing Maven Project in your Eclipse.

Download it from github

1 Comment

mobile applications · 13 June, 2012 at 10:17

Nice information, many thanks to the author. It is incomprehensible to me currently, but in general, the usefulness and significance is overwhelming. Thanks again and fine luck!

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