Update SDK tools, build tools and sdk version for API 34

[cs-nuuk]

[michael-winkler]

@jangrewe Can you merge this please? The current image does not allow builds with target sdk 34 (Android 14)

[michael-winkler]

In the meantime I use this for Android 14 and Java 17 support: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/lib/gitlab/ci/templates/Android.gitlab-ci.yml

# To contribute improvements to CI/CD templates, please follow the Development guide at:
# https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/cicd/templates.html
# This specific template is located at:
# https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/lib/gitlab/ci/templates/Android.gitlab-ci.yml

# Read more about this script on this blog post https://about.gitlab.com/2018/10/24/setting-up-gitlab-ci-for-android-projects/, by Jason Lenny
# If you are interested in using Android with FastLane for publishing take a look at the Android-Fastlane template.

image: eclipse-temurin:17-jdk-jammy

variables:

  # ANDROID_COMPILE_SDK is the version of Android you're compiling with.
  # It should match compileSdkVersion.
  ANDROID_COMPILE_SDK: "34"

  # ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS is the version of the Android build tools you are using.
  # It should match buildToolsVersion.
  ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS: "34.0.0"

  # It's what version of the command line tools we're going to download from the official site.
  # Official Site-> https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html
  # There, look down below at the cli tools only, sdk tools package is of format:
  #        commandlinetools-os_type-ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS_latest.zip
  # when the script was last modified for latest compileSdkVersion, it was which is written down below
  ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS: "9477386"

# Packages installation before running script
before_script:
  - apt-get --quiet update --yes
  - apt-get --quiet install --yes wget unzip

  # Setup path as android_home for moving/exporting the downloaded sdk into it
  - export ANDROID_HOME="${PWD}/android-sdk-root"
  # Create a new directory at specified location
  - install -d $ANDROID_HOME
  # Here we are installing androidSDK tools from official source,
  # (the key thing here is the url from where you are downloading these sdk tool for command line, so please do note this url pattern there and here as well)
  # after that unzipping those tools and
  # then running a series of SDK manager commands to install necessary android SDK packages that'll allow the app to build
  - wget --no-verbose --output-document=$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools.zip https://dl.google.com/android/repository/commandlinetools-linux-${ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS}_latest.zip
  - unzip -q -d "$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools" "$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools.zip"
  - mv -T "$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/cmdline-tools" "$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/tools"
  - export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/latest/bin:$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/tools/bin

  # Nothing fancy here, just checking sdkManager version
  - sdkmanager --version

  # use yes to accept all licenses
  - yes | sdkmanager --licenses > /dev/null || true
  - sdkmanager "platforms;android-${ANDROID_COMPILE_SDK}"
  - sdkmanager "platform-tools"
  - sdkmanager "build-tools;${ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS}"

  # Not necessary, but just for surity
  - chmod +x ./gradlew

# Basic android and gradle stuff
# Check linting
lintDebug:
  interruptible: true
  stage: build
  script:
    - ./gradlew -Pci --console=plain :app:lintDebug -PbuildDir=lint
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - app/lint/reports/lint-results-debug.html
    expose_as: "lint-report"
    when: always

# Make Project
assembleDebug:
  interruptible: true
  stage: build
  script:
    - ./gradlew assembleDebug
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - app/build/outputs/

# Run all tests, if any fails, interrupt the pipeline(fail it)
debugTests:
  needs: [lintDebug, assembleDebug]
  interruptible: true
  stage: test
  script:
    - ./gradlew -Pci --console=plain :app:testDebug

[10Wyk]

In the meantime I use this for Android 14 and Java 17 support: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/lib/gitlab/ci/templates/Android.gitlab-ci.yml

# To contribute improvements to CI/CD templates, please follow the Development guide at:
# https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/cicd/templates.html
# This specific template is located at:
# https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/lib/gitlab/ci/templates/Android.gitlab-ci.yml

# Read more about this script on this blog post https://about.gitlab.com/2018/10/24/setting-up-gitlab-ci-for-android-projects/, by Jason Lenny
# If you are interested in using Android with FastLane for publishing take a look at the Android-Fastlane template.

image: eclipse-temurin:17-jdk-jammy

variables:

  # ANDROID_COMPILE_SDK is the version of Android you're compiling with.
  # It should match compileSdkVersion.
  ANDROID_COMPILE_SDK: "34"

  # ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS is the version of the Android build tools you are using.
  # It should match buildToolsVersion.
  ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS: "34.0.0"

  # It's what version of the command line tools we're going to download from the official site.
  # Official Site-> https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html
  # There, look down below at the cli tools only, sdk tools package is of format:
  #        commandlinetools-os_type-ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS_latest.zip
  # when the script was last modified for latest compileSdkVersion, it was which is written down below
  ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS: "9477386"

# Packages installation before running script
before_script:
  - apt-get --quiet update --yes
  - apt-get --quiet install --yes wget unzip

  # Setup path as android_home for moving/exporting the downloaded sdk into it
  - export ANDROID_HOME="${PWD}/android-sdk-root"
  # Create a new directory at specified location
  - install -d $ANDROID_HOME
  # Here we are installing androidSDK tools from official source,
  # (the key thing here is the url from where you are downloading these sdk tool for command line, so please do note this url pattern there and here as well)
  # after that unzipping those tools and
  # then running a series of SDK manager commands to install necessary android SDK packages that'll allow the app to build
  - wget --no-verbose --output-document=$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools.zip https://dl.google.com/android/repository/commandlinetools-linux-${ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS}_latest.zip
  - unzip -q -d "$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools" "$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools.zip"
  - mv -T "$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/cmdline-tools" "$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/tools"
  - export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/latest/bin:$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/tools/bin

  # Nothing fancy here, just checking sdkManager version
  - sdkmanager --version

  # use yes to accept all licenses
  - yes | sdkmanager --licenses > /dev/null || true
  - sdkmanager "platforms;android-${ANDROID_COMPILE_SDK}"
  - sdkmanager "platform-tools"
  - sdkmanager "build-tools;${ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS}"

  # Not necessary, but just for surity
  - chmod +x ./gradlew

# Basic android and gradle stuff
# Check linting
lintDebug:
  interruptible: true
  stage: build
  script:
    - ./gradlew -Pci --console=plain :app:lintDebug -PbuildDir=lint
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - app/lint/reports/lint-results-debug.html
    expose_as: "lint-report"
    when: always

# Make Project
assembleDebug:
  interruptible: true
  stage: build
  script:
    - ./gradlew assembleDebug
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - app/build/outputs/

# Run all tests, if any fails, interrupt the pipeline(fail it)
debugTests:
  needs: [lintDebug, assembleDebug]
  interruptible: true
  stage: test
  script:
    - ./gradlew -Pci --console=plain :app:testDebug

how much time do you spend to build it in gitlab?

[qwertzui11]

In the meantime I use this for Android 14 and Java 17 support: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/lib/gitlab/ci/templates/Android.gitlab-ci.yml

This works surprisingly well for me. Installation time is less than 30s.