Sonny Gill wrote:
I have been using Ant so far, and happy with it.
I want to try Maven as soon as there is a full featured plugin, but not if it is going to be a hassle to set up (many other things to learn that I can spend my time on ).
Has anyone tried it? what was your experience like?
Cheers.
Are you asking about Maven and its comparison against Ant in general? Or are you asking specifically for using the plugins on Android. If you are looking for a general comparison, then our "Ant & other build tools" forum would be a good choice
Anyways, having used both Ant and Maven, i would say that both are targeted to do things in a different way. Each one has its advantages and its disadvantages. Maven works on the principle of conventions. So it regulates that your project has a standard folder hierarchy. Its a different point that you can always override the defaults. Ant on the other hand has no such convention and its upto the build configuration manager to create the appropriate "tasks" of pulling in the necessary source/resource from various locations.
Maven also works on the principle that your project dependencies (like dependency on a logging library) should come from a repository.