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Extending Jenkins

By : Donald Simpson
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Extending Jenkins

By: Donald Simpson

Overview of this book

Jenkins CI is the leading open source continuous integration server. It is written in Java and has a wealth of plugins to support the building and testing of virtually any project. Jenkins supports multiple Software Configuration Management tools such as Git, Subversion, and Mercurial. This book explores and explains the many extension points and customizations that Jenkins offers its users, and teaches you how to develop your own Jenkins extensions and plugins. First, you will learn how to adapt Jenkins and leverage its abilities to empower DevOps, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Agile projects. Next, you will find out how to reduce the cost of modern software development, increase the quality of deliveries, and thereby reduce the time to market. We will also teach you how to create your own custom plugins using Extension points. Finally, we will show you how to combine everything you learned over the course of the book into one real-world scenario.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Extending Jenkins
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Jenkins and Android


Jenkins can, with the help of an SDK and a few plugins, be set up to automate the building, deployment, testing, and publishing of Android applications. To build Android applications, you need the Android software development kit, which you can download from:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

When it is downloaded, extract the archive to a local directory. Then edit and add the following environment variables to your system:

export ANDROID_HOME="<location of extracted files>" export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH"

Once this is done, update the SDK and verify that your Jenkins user has read and execute permissions on the SDK executable files.

To run an Android emulator as part of your build process, add this plugin to your Jenkins server:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Android+Emulator+Plugin

Note that this will attempt to install an Android SDK for you if it doesn't find one. It's often preferable to set up the SDK...