Welcome to the last chapter of this book. When we were figuring out the structure and contents of the chapters, there were some topics that we wanted to cover but didn't fit in any of the previous chapters. So, we decided to dedicate the last one to tools and Maven plugins that are worth your attention when you develop Android applications with Maven.

We had, however, two possible approaches. We had to list a big number of tools by just mentioning their basic characteristics or limit them to not more than a couple and discuss in detail how to effectively integrate them to your existing development process. The answer was easy, and we clearly prefer the latter. As this is a practical hands-on book, we want to provide you with as much as possible complete start-up guides for each of the tools presented in this chapter. After a lot of research, we end up to the following topics: