Providing some useful utilities for android gradle development.

Provides the possibility to generate Javadoc with gradle task: generate$Variant$Javadoc. Output folder is /build/outputs/javadoc/$Variant$

add the following line to your app build.grade: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Plinzen/gradleUtils/master/javadoc.gradle

Provides a function to count the git commits in your project. Sample usage:

def numberOfCommits = countGitCommits();
versionCode 8000 + numberOfCommits
versionName "0.8.$numberOfCommits"

add the following line to your app build.grade: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Plinzen/gradleUtils/master/countGitCommits.gradle

Add some Checkstyle code analysis tasks. Works currently only without product flavor usage since some paths are hard coded.

1. Copy the config-folder (containing checkstyle.xml and checkstyle.xsl) from the repository to your app-folder within your project. Your file structure should look similar to that:

project-root
 |-> app
      |->config
          |-> checkstyle.xml
          |-> checkstyle.xsl

2. add the following line to your app build.grade: apply from: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Plinzen/gradleUtils/master/checkstyle.gradle'

Run the gradle-tasks checkstyle or checkstyleReport: ./gradlew checkstyle checkstyleReport

Android Studio has an additional plugin CheckStyle-IDEA which can be installed and configured to use the rules from the config-folder. The plugin add a new window in the buttombar which shows all checkstyle warnings in the current scope.