Re: [DISCUSS] Replacing ADB usage in favour for using BundleTools

2019-08-12 Thread Norman Breau
As of right now, it isn't included as part of the Android SDK. It needs to be downloaded from their github repository. So cordova will have to download this manually and store it somewhere where it can be executed. It's a jar file, but java is already a dependency of the android sdk anyway. I c

Re: [DISCUSS] Replacing ADB usage in favour for using BundleTools

2019-08-12 Thread Jan Piotrowski
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, o

[DISCUSS] Replacing ADB usage in favour for using BundleTools

2019-08-12 Thread Norman Breau
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