Android.Tools.Ant

Ant

1. Ant manual Translation

Ant Handbook Translation is a BIG project!!!!!!

The link to the ant online manual is not clear.

2. Ant supports for loop

Install Ant-contrib ref[1.1]. To support in Ant's Build.xml script, refer to link ref[1.2].

The following build.xml is an ant script that iterates through the TXT file and outputs each row. ref[1.3]

1 <?XML version= "1.0" encoding= "UTF-8"?>2 <Projectname= "Android_rules"default= "Iterate">3 4 <TaskdefResource= "Net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml"/>5 6 <Targetname= "Iterate">7     <LoadFile Property= "Lines"Srcfile= "CopyRes.txt">8         <Filterchain>9             <FilterReaderClassName= "Org.apache.tools.ant.filters.StripLineBreaks">Ten                   <paramname= "Linebreaks"value= "\ n"/> One             </FilterReader> A         </Filterchain> -     </LoadFile> -  the     < forList= "${lines}"param= "line"> -          <Sequential> -             <Echo>@{line}</Echo> -         </Sequential> +     </ for> -  + </Target> A  at </Project>

Reference

1. Ant-contrib

1.1 Http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net

1.2 http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/index.html

1.3 Http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5087929/how-to-iterate-over-the-file-content-using-ant-script

2. Ant Engineering Home Page

http://ant.apache.org/

Running Apache Ant	Command Line Running Ant as a background process on Unix (-like) systems Running Ant via Java
Properties	Built-in Properties Propertyhelpers Property Expansion $$Expansion Nesting of Braces Expanding a "property Name" If/unless Attributes
Filter
Typedef	Adds a task or a data type definition to the current project such, this new type or task can be used in the current project.
Fileset	A fileset is a group of files. These files can be found in a directory tree starting in a base directory and is matched by patterns taken from a number of patternsets and selectors.
Task	http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/ Http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/conditions.html Http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/index.html
Filterset	Http://ant.apache.org/manual/Types/filterset.html Filtersets is groups of filters. Filters can be defined as Token-value pairs or is read in from a file. Filtersets can appear inside tasks that support this feature or <target> at the same level as-i.e., as children of <project> .
Filterchains and Filterreaders	Http://ant.apache.org/manual/Types/filterchain.html

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