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Made some progress on the GWSAntDroid build system. Most of the stuff is in place such as codeqa targets, build logic, ndkbuild feature, js/css obfuscation on product release for those projects that have a web component.

The next steps are finish the doclava templates, do some test project build types to verify feature operations and than wire up the javamonkey feature set.

Things Learned Thus Far

Its very hard to have one aspect of a build system relying upon a SDK install as the library jar dependency system. It results in a lot more build logic and build boilerplate code. I wish Google would just pick up the IVY ant task and submit the artifacts to the Maven2 Central.

Its easier to create new internal targets for added things like codeqa than to rely upon the pre and post targets that Google gave us. Why? Most IDEs have ANT target view outlines so its easier for every one to use that outline to go to a target to change rather than a huge post compile or pre build target.