How To Prevent Cordova Build Command From Auto-generating Settings.gradle

I have created a Cordova App with a custom settings.gradle as folows: // GENERATED FILE - DO NOT EDIT include ':' include ':CordovaLib' include 'manager' project(':manager').projec

Solution 1:

Today i faced the same problem and by spending hours i found that we can do this by change in project.properties

Below are the steps:

Step-1. Edit/Make project.properties in root directory and add your module as library reference after CordovaLib:

target=android-25android.library.reference.1=CordovaLib
android.library.reference.2=libraryModule1
android.library.reference.3=libraryModule2

Step-2. Run cordova build android. This will make an entry in your setting.gradle file.

//GENERATED FILE - DO NOT EDITinclude":"include":CordovaLib"include":libraryModule1"include":libraryModule2"

Also your app build.gradle will look like this:

dependencies {
    ----// SUB-PROJECT DEPENDENCIES STARTdebugCompile(project(path: "CordovaLib", configuration: "debug"))
    releaseCompile(project(path: "CordovaLib", configuration: "release"))
    debugCompile(project(path: "libraryModule1", configuration: "debug"))
    releaseCompile(project(path: "libraryModule1", configuration: "release"))
    debugCompile(project(path: "libraryModule2", configuration: "debug"))
    releaseCompile(project(path: "libraryModule2", configuration: "release"))
    ----// SUB-PROJECT DEPENDENCIES END
}

For project(':manager').projectDir = new File('libs/ConnectManager') this kind of setting there is no easy way i found but you can achieve in this way:

Step-1. /path/to/project/platforms/android/cordova/lib/builders/GradleBuilder.js

Step-2. Edit fs.writeFileSync() function(Line-100)

// Write the settings.gradle file.fs.writeFileSync(path.join(this.root, 'settings.gradle'),
    '// GENERATED FILE - DO NOT EDIT\n' +
    'include ":"\n' + settingsGradlePaths.join('')+ "'include :"+libraryModule1+" \n'+ 'include :"+libraryModule2+"');

// Update dependencies within build.gradle.