use gradle about android-ibeacon-service

[davidgyoung]

Thanks, this is helpful!

I have used this to create a gradle branch that does something similar. I am keeping the project as an Android Library project as I expect to require resources in the future. I have therefore made a build.gradle that generates both an AndroidIBeaconLibrary.aar file for use in Gradle projects and a AndroidIBeaconLibrary.tar.gz file that can be extracted as an Eclipse Android Library project.

[ligi]

great!

I am not sure if this should be an library-project - and if it is - it should be on maven central - otherwise handling is really clumsy.
Perhaps a pure java lib as core and a library project using it to extend it with UI stuff?

[davidgyoung]

I agree about Maven. If you'd be up for volunteering to help set that up, please contact me directly -- I'd love to have a hand!

The reason that I want to make it an aar instead of a jar is so that I can merge the service configuration from the AndroidManifest.xml to make setup easier. I haven't done this yet, but it is on my todo list. And I don't want to encourage people to use a jar, because it will make it impossible to inherit this configuration from the library. I've added instructions on the project website for setting up the aar here.

That said if you want to use the jar, you can simply download the binary aar, and pull the classes.jar out of it. Or you can build it yourself and do the same thing.

[davidgyoung]

closing this because the Gradle build has been fully implemented. Please open a new issue about Maven if needed.