Prerequisites:

1. Install Maven (Download: apache-maven-3.0.5-bin.zip )

• Edit ‘Environment Variables’ -> Add new user variable “M2_HOME” = C:\Program Files\apache-maven-3.0.5
• Update  system variable ‘Path’ -> Add %M2_HOME%\bin; at the end of variable value

2. Install Android SDK

• Edit ‘Environment Variables’ -> Add new user variable “ANDROID_HOME”
• Update system variable ‘Path’ –> Add  %ANDROID_HOME%\tools; and %ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools;

Create Android Project:

1. Create a new folder ‘MyProjects’. Select folder -> Press Shift +Right Click ->Select ‘Open command window here’

2.  Enter the following command:

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeArtifactId=android-quickstart  -DarchetypeGroupId=de.akquinet.android.archetypes -DarchetypeVersion=1.1.0  -DgroupId=com.testapp -DartifactId=my-android-application -Dversion=1.0

• This creates an android-quickstart project with following config properties;

• New project named ‘my-android-application’ will be generated inside ‘MyProject’ folder. Generated project contains AndroidManifest.xml and pom.xml files.

• Note: Open the pom.xml file -> change the ‘android-plugin-version’ value to 3.6.0 and Save.

Import the Project to Eclipse IDE

The new project created from Maven archetypes, cannot directly import to Eclispe. For that we need to run a new command to convert the project to an eclipse project.

1. Open command prompt from project folder. Enter the following command

mvn eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse

This command generates .classpath and .project files.

2. Open Eclipse workspace –> Windows -> Preferences

• Navigate to Maven -> Installations
• Disable Embedded Maven Installation.
• Add ‘External Maven Installation’ -> C:\Program Files\apache-maven-3.0.5. Apply Ok.
• Make  sure you have set Andorid SDK preferences.

3.  Goto Import –> General -> Existing Project into Workspace -> Navigate and select ‘my-android-applicaton’ project -> Finish

Initially the project structure looks like this:       

4. Goto Project Properties -> JavaBuildPath -> Remove references to M2 Repository.

Note: You will get errors at Project src.

5. Right Click on Project -> Config -> Convert to Maven Project

This will refresh Maven Dependecies and Fix the project errors.

6. You can add new dependencies at pom.xml file

Ex: Ad