Sounds great. Historically we always had trouble when Google decided to replace/deprecate/change any of the tools in the build toolchain, so keeping up to date what is the tool of the week sounds like a good idea.
Important to consider is the availability of that tool for older Android versions, on CI providers etc. But I expect that to be part of the implementation work. -J Am Mo., 12. Aug. 2019 um 14:34 Uhr schrieb Norman Breau <nor...@normanbreau.com>: > > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org
