Hi all,
Just throwing a potential idea out there, maybe for the cordova-android
9.x milestone. Now that we have android bundle support merged into
master, I think it is worth considering to incorporate bundletool, which
is a command line toolset for managing and manipulating AAB files. It is
the underlying command tool that Google uses for Gradle, Android Studio,
and Google Play service. It is released under the Apache license. I
believe it can for the most part replace ADB usage, because it can both
build apks, and deploy apks to device.
One benefit this will provide us is we can then support the cordova run
command while using bundles since the bundletool itself can install apk
generated from the bundle to a connected device.
I think there might be some cases where using the ADB executable is
still necessary, perhaps for listing devices, etc. But for actual
building/installing a build to the device, I believe ADB can be replaced
with the bundletool.
We can still provide an APK to those end-users who still wants to use
APKs for deployment as we can extract APKs from a bundle.
I'll provide couple links for reference:
https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/bundletool
https://github.com/google/bundletool
- Norman
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