Question

First steps to use the android-maven-plugin?

Answer 1

1 Set android home

export ANDROID_HOME=/your/android-SDK/path

2 Run

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeArtifactId=android-with-test 
-DarchetypeGroupId=de.akquinet.android.archetypes -DarchetypeVersion=1.0.9 
-DgroupId=org.me -DartifactId=myAndroidApp -Dplatform=8

Here To check the archetypeVersion or look for other ones.

3

Edit myAndroidApp/pom.xml (parent level pom.xml) to set (it is initially void)

<platform.version> 2.2.1 </platform.version>

in the properties section. Please make sure the correspondence
between platform 8 and platform.version 2.2.1
You can learn in your android sdk manager app that API 8 <-> 2.2,
but must visit here to see that the final number is 2.2.1.
(Note: for API 10 <-> 2.3.3).

4

You can start right now to play with it. In the parent directory:

mvn clean install

and to run it (in myAndroidApp/myAndroidApp directory)

cd myAndroidApp
mvn android:run

Be sure you started a phone emulator or attached a real phone (in debug mode)
to your computer.

Hope this saves you a whole weekend! (Too late for me 😉 )