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Great, then why don't you ship your software with bash scripts then?

• wiseowise 1y ago
  Because Android is so entangled with Gradle that it is impossible to do anything without it.
  • Tainnor 1y ago
    An apk is just a ZIP file, as you yourself were saying. So if you want to build it all via bash scripts, feel free.
    • wiseowise 1y ago
      Already done way before me. https://github.com/HemanthJabalpuri/AndroidExplorer https://github.com/HemanthJabalpuri/AndroidExplorer The problem is that there are bazillion of frameworks doing shit using Gradle plugins.
      • Tainnor 1y ago
        Is this portable? does it support incremental compilation? What about doc generation? code generation? running tests? generating test reports? Of course things are simpler if you restrict yourself to 10% of the functionality.