Question

I am trying to build Droid-Fu as specified on the GitHub page but the build is failing. Here is the message which I got after running mvn package inside the Droid-Fu folder

[INFO] artifact junit:junit: checking for updates from central
Downloading: http://powermock.googlecode.com/svn/repo//com/google/android/maps/maps/9_r1/maps-9_r1.jar
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'com.google.android.maps:maps:jar:9_r1' in repository powermock-repo (http://powermock.googlecode.com/svn/repo/)
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/google/android/maps/maps/9_r1/maps-9_r1.jar
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'com.google.android.maps:maps:jar:9_r1' in repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Failed to resolve artifact.

Missing:
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1) com.google.android.maps:maps:jar:9_r1

  Try downloading the file manually from the project website.

  Then, install it using the command: 
      mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.google.android.maps -DartifactId=maps -Dversion=9_r1 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file

  Alternatively, if you host your own repository you can deploy the file there: 
      mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=com.google.android.maps -DartifactId=maps -Dversion=9_r1 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file -Durl=[url] -DrepositoryId=[id]

  Path to dependency: 
    1) com.github.droidfu:droid-fu:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT
    2) com.google.android.maps:maps:jar:9_r1

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1 required artifact is missing.

for artifact: 
  com.github.droidfu:droid-fu:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT

Any idea what I may be doing wrong?

Answer 1

The Maps JAR is not on Maven Central, since it contains proprietary code. You can use the maven-android-sdk-deployer to easily install it from your local SDK installation.

To make sure that you have all platform versions, first run

android update sdk --no-ui

Then git clone the SDK deployer and run

mvn install

If you only want to install one specific platform version, run with the -P <version> flag.