Programming

I’ve started to learn the basics of Android Apps development. As always that there is code involved, I like to use a code versioning tool. In my case I use subversion.

The general rule of thumb I use when using subversion is to add everything to subversion except the auto generated files. For Android this means, add everything generated by eclipse ADT plugin except the gen and bin folders.

I  tell the steps to follow to create a new project and upload to a subversion repository. In this example I use a folder in my home directory to store the project files. Instead of letting Eclipse create the folder I do it myself and then I check out the option “Use default location”.

• Launch Eclipse and create a new Android Project, setting the location you want to use

• Check out your subversion trunk development at your selected location

svn co http://path/to/your/subversion/trunk ~/libtronicsExample

• Add everything to subversion

cd ~/libtronicsExample
svn add *
svn add .project
svn add .classpath

• Revert bin and gen contents (but keep versioning the root folders, as you need them to build the project)

cd ~/libtronicsExample
cd bin
svn revert --depth infinity *
cd ../gen
svn revert --depth infinity *

• Check what are you versioning

cd  ~/libtronicsExample
svn status

Here you see that “bin” folder is being versioned, but its contents aren’t. We do this to avoid storing changes on files that are autogenerated on each build

• Submit it

cd  ~/libtronicsExample
svn ci -m "My first commit of my next awesome Android App"