android-plugin

An sbt plugin for Android development in Scala

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An sbt plugin for Android development in Scala

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There are a few obstacles to easily using Scala on Android. Namely, the Scala standard library is too large to be easily "dexed" by the Android toolchain. Using Proguard or a…

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2012	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
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2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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stephenjudkins·May 4, 2011Recommendation phrase

There are a few obstacles to easily using Scala on Android. Namely, the Scala standard library is too large to be easily "dexed" by the Android toolchain. Using Proguard or a similar treeshaker removes unused classes, but it's a bit of a hassle to set up manually. However, I've found that using the SBT Android plugin (https://github.com/jberkel/android-plugin) makes the entire process relatively painless. I recommend starting with that approach.

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