Few cents about my commits
UPDATE: possible solution delivered
Previous post on this topic described how to hack android.jar.
That approach has own flaws such as it is not working properly with recent Android Studio. Now there is another way to fight the issue – remove android-gradle and java-gradle in automatic way.
Morning maintenance PR289, there are three commits:
Continue extending functionality for Linux/Windows port. Today device system log and screenshot capture were added. This functionality is available in Xcode on Mac but on Windows/Linux it would require external tool. It was required to adjust libmobiledevice bindings, some RoboVM classes and Idea plugin to make it available for user.
Whats new in idea
Syslog functionality almost copies Android Logcat as code from AOSP was used as reference.
History dSYM generation heavily delayed on XCode 9.3
Fix PR282
Each Xcode update breaks something in RoboVM. This time it slowed down dsymutil that makes build time up to 30 min long and development process completely unusable. Small numbers on empty project, will use i386 slice from binary generated from empty framework sample:
With 9.3 dsymutil - 1 min 42 secs vs 6 secs:
> time (dsymutil -o test.dsym i386.bin)
real 1m42.932s
user 1m30.420s
sys 0m9.043s
With llvm-dsymutil (built it from source):
> time (./llvm-dsymutil -o test.dsym i386.bin)
real 0m5.813s
user 0m1.953s
sys 0m3.599s
Had no idea where to start from so started from old known bug robovm/#1126. In general it was complaining that it was not able to find out object file for about 90K+ symbols:
iOS 11.3 was released and using bro-gen binding were done in pr280. Most significant changes are to ARKit and StoreKit but following frameworks got their update as well:
New Lottie.framework pod. It is nice and shiny library for natively render After Effects vector animations, like this:
RoboPod is available from my own maven repo for intermediate results altpods:
Altpods are available as repository in github, also it is deployed it to ‘oss.sonatype.org’ which makes it available as maven artifact.
RoboVM needs swift libraries as these has to be embedded into application in case any dependency is using swift. E.g. in case you favorite framework is built using swift. Precompiled libraries are available from https://swift.org. Seems to be easy but not so fast. Details bellow.
Previous post described how to remove android-gradle facet but as well with it there was module dependency resolution broken. It is time to fix it as well.
It was missed to handle properly populateModuleDependencies as result all modules were not populated with dependencies. As modules were moved out of Android gradle structures this tast shall be also forwarded to nextResolver.
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Last year AS/Idea become real pain in case Java project is mixed with Android one. This results of “android-gradle” facet and project type to be created. And these project type doesn’t play nice with RoboVM/Java projects. Nothing is working.
There is already several issues about this in the field:
It is almost year as JetBrains fixes it. So there is a hack which allows to run it:
First POC Linux/Windows build has major usability flaw: to start working on Linux/Windows user had to have access to Mac to obtain Xcode files and also manually download and deploy toolchain files. Now it is solved with automatic downloader/installer:
This became possible with as result of following changes: