Build It Bigger : Gradle for Android and Java project

Fourth project of Udacity's Android Nanodegree.

This project is an app with multiple flavors that uses multiple libraries and Google Cloud Endpoints. The finished app consists of four modules :

• a Java library that provides jokes
• a Google Cloud Endpoints (GCE) project that serves those jokes
• an Android Library containing an activity for displaying jokes
• an Android app that fetches jokes from the GCE module and passes them to the Android Library for display.

Why this Project

As Android projects grow in complexity, it becomes necessary to customize the behavior of the Gradle build tool, allowing automation of repetitive tasks. Particularly, factoring functionality into libraries and creating product flavors allow for much bigger projects with minimal added complexity.

Concepts

• Gradle
• multi project build
• dependencies
• creation of Java libraries
• creation of Android libraries
• Gradle App Engine plugin in order to deploy a backend
• Google Cloud Endpoints (GCE)
• asyncTask
• connected test / JUnit
• free and paid flavors
• Google Play Services / Google AdMob