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Maven Build Customization

By : Lorenzo Anardu, Roberto Baldi, Umberto Antonio Cicero, Riccardo Giomi, Giacomo Veneri
Book Image

Maven Build Customization

By: Lorenzo Anardu, Roberto Baldi, Umberto Antonio Cicero, Riccardo Giomi, Giacomo Veneri

Overview of this book

<p>Maven is one of the most popular tools used to control the dependencies and to administer a Java project. Maven can be used by newbies without the need to learn complex mechanisms, but it is also a powerful tool for big projects developed by different teams and organized over different modules and repositories.</p> <p>This book will provide you with all the information you need, right from managing dependencies to improving the build process of your organization. Starting with a simple project, you will create your development environment step-by-step, automatically build your code from resources (XML, DB), and package your JAR, WAR, and EAR files for different environments. Furthermore, you will learn about the complex hereditary features of Maven.</p> <p>Finally, this book will benefit you by teaching Maven-Gradle and Maven-Eclipse integration using the m2e plugin, managing the Maven repository from Gradle, and building a working Maven environment from Gradle.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Maven Build Customization
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Declaring dependencies


Now, we will see how to insert and use third-party libraries easily. For our scope, we will use a very simple and functional library, which is called RoboGuice 2, and which allows us to inject our view, resource, system service, or any other object into our activity (we call this activity RoboActivity).

To do this, we have to modify the MainActivity.java class. This class contains the following code:

package com.androidmavenproject;

import roboguice.activity.RoboActivity;
import roboguice.inject.ContentView;
import roboguice.inject.InjectView;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TextView;

@ContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
public class MainActivity extends RoboActivity {

  @InjectView(R.id.text_view)
  TextView name;

  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    name.setText("Hello world!");
  }
}

We take advantage of the functionalities offered by this library to set the content view and inject the...