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first published week of: 01/05/2015
The 10.2.5 release of the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Android has arrived, and we are very excited to share the work that’s been done to modernize and enhance the professional development experience for ArcGIS Android developers.
As you may have heard already, Google released its Android Studio 1.0 this past week, and the ArcGIS Runtime SDK development team stayed on top of it, providing full API and SDK integration for Android Studio and the Gradle build framework just 10 days after Google’s release announcement!
These enhancement and innovations in the 10.2.5 SDK are in lock-step with the direction that Google is guiding their platform developers toward; more support for Android Studio tooling and the Gradle build system. Developers will see less and less emphasis on Eclipse and Ant from Google for Android development as time goes on, and the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Android will continue to reflect this direction. This release, in fact, will not include the previously-available Eclipse plugin.
Get started today with The ArcGIS Runtime API in Android Studio, and check out the new Gradle-based sample projects for Android Studio, available in Github.