Publish adbserver-desktop.jar to Maven repo

[victorsmirnov]

Suggestion: publish adbserver-desktop.jar in Maven repository with name "com.kaspersky.android-components:adb-server-desktop".

How does it help?

1. Use Gradle dependency management to download and cache adbserver-desktop.jar instead of custom scripts or manual updates.
2. Use corporate Maven proxy in CI the same way as for other Kaspresso libraries, no need for any custom logic to get JAR file on corporate CI servers.

Example for Gradle Kotlin DSL

val adbServerConfig by configurations.creating
dependencies {
    adbServerConfig("com.kaspersky.android-components:adb-server-desktop:1.6.0")
}

Now I publish adbserver-desktop.jar in our company Maven repo. Having it in the central Kaspresso repo would simplify our CI.

Thank you for your work and support!

[victorsmirnov]

The same might be achieved by ADB server plugin. However, plugin requires much more changes. Because it's not easy to develop universal solution for the task.

This is why I would suggest to begin with publishing adbserver-desktop.jar in Maven and providing sample code (in the documentation) explaining how to write Gradle tasks or plugin to automatically start ADB server for the instrumental tests.

See related issues

• Run adbserver-desktop.jar automatically during instrumentation tests #247
• Add Kaspresso plugin #417
• add adbserver plugin and setup publication #611