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| # Android Bazel Roadmap |
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| This document describes the major release milestones for the Android Bazel |
| Rules. There are three major pillars that we are focused on when developing the |
| Android rules - **Performance**, **Features**, and **Developer Experience** - |
| and for each milestone we list the main items for each pillar. Progress on each |
| item is tracked via an issue. |
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| If you have feedback on this roadmap (including feature and reprioritization |
| requests) please open an issue or comment on the existing one. |
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| ## Rules Alpha (est. mid 2019) |
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| The primary goal of the Rules Alpha release is to start collecting feedback from |
| projects and developers that are interested in being early adopters of the |
| rules. Our intention is for Rules Alpha to be a 1:1 identical drop-in |
| replacement for the native Android rules, although undoubtedly there will be |
| missing features and we cannot always guarantee 100% backwards compatibility. |
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| ### Performance |
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| * Use AAPT2 for resource processing |
| * Use D8 for Dexing |
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| ### Features |
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| * Support android_instrumentation_test on macOS |
| * Support building and testing on Google Cloud Platform Remote Build Execution |
| * Support new Android App Bundle format |
| * Accept APKs directly into android_instrumentation_test |
| * Simplified package and dependency management |
| * Improve Kotlin interoperability |
| * Integration with Bazel's platforms and toolchains support |
| * Modern and correct NDK support |
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| ### Developer Experience |
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| * Documentation for Android with Bazel compatibility across Windows, macOS, |
| Linux |
| * Documentation for Android with Bazel compatibility across Android Studio |
| versions |
| * Stable and reliable CI |
| * NDK documentation and samples |
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| ## Rules Beta (est. late 2019) |
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| The goal for the Rules Beta release is to provide a stable, (mostly) feature |
| complete version of the rules for all developers and projects. We intend the |
| Rules Beta release to be the first version of the rules to be broadly adopted, |
| and will comply with Bazel's backwards compatibility guarantees. |
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| ### Performance |
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| * Improve resource processing speed and incrementality |
| * Decouple Java compilation from R.class generation |
| * Launch Bazel mobile-install v2 |
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| ### Features |
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| * New android_application rule for app packaging / sourceless binary / |
| android_application |
| * Improved support for AAR creation |
| * Support Databinding 3.4.0 (v2) |
| * Support `bazel coverage` for all test rules |
| * Integration with Android Lint |
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| ### Developer Experience |
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| * Document best practices |
| * Best in class tutorials and migration guides |
