A Gradle plug-in that enables generation of Eclipse project files (.project and .classpath) to enable use of the Eclipse IDE for Android projects.

This generator works with the new Android build system.

Based on this stack overflow by Johannes Brodwall.

This plug-in hooks into the Gradle eclipse plugin to make it work for Android projects, by doing the following:

• Adds the following Android source paths:
  • src/main/java
  • src/test/java
  • src/main/resources
  • build/generated/source/buildConfig/debug
  • build/generated/not_namespaced_r_class_sources/debug/r
• For any dependency packaged as an aar (Android Archive), the aar is extracted into build/exploded-aars
  • each aar-packaged jar is added to the .classpath
• Adds the Android SDK to the .classpath
• Updates the Eclipse project compiler settings to match the android.compileOptions in the gradle build

Add the following to your build.gradle:

apply plugin: 'com.greensopinion.gradle-android-eclipse'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'

buildscript {
    repositories {
        maven {
          url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
        }
    }
    dependencies {
      classpath "gradle.plugin.com.greensopinion.gradle-android-eclipse:gradle-android-eclipse:1.1"
    }
}

eclipse {
  classpath {
    plusConfigurations += [ configurations.compile, configurations.testCompile ]
    downloadSources = true
  }
}

See build.gradle for a complete working example.

Then from the command-line run:

$ gradle eclipse

When done, a .classpath and .project file should be in the current folder.

To open this project in Eclipse, first run the following:

$ gradle eclipse

Copyright 2017 David Green

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