While its true the official build system is slowly lurching its way over to gradle, this is nothing like what the author is experiencing with Symfony. Android +

While its true the official build system is slowly lurching its way over to gradle, this is nothing like what the author is experiencing with Symfony. Android + ant is still fully functionally and has tons of documentation and community info. Switching from ant builds to gradle is not difficult and doesn't impact app development, Eclipse/Intellij/Android Studio all can build and work with projects without gradle.