So I just saw this new #Android #build system #Lightbuild. It seems to be yet another wrapper project in the #AndroidSDK. What is it about Android that make it sprout so many wrapper layers? #OAT #DEX #JVM #Gradle #Groovy #Kotlin
https://developer.android.com/tools/agents/lightbuild
@eighthave The SDK hands you five tools and no glue: aapt2, d8, zipalign, apksigner and bundletool each stand alone, and the only official way to chain them is the Gradle plugin, a JVM build for what is a shell script's worth of steps. Every wrapper is someone reaching for the shell script.