title: Should I use Maven for an Android App?
body: <p>I code mostly in Java and use Maven for all of my projects. I do really love using Maven since it is easy to download the sources and documentations, and, more importantly, I don't need to keep the copy of the external libraries under my project source code folders.</p>
  
  <p>I have started to develop an Android application and I found that the Android plugin for eclipse are terribly good. However, all provided examples are not maven projects so I do not know whether, if I use maven, I would still get all the functionalities from the Android plugin or whether there is any drawback from using Maven.</p>
  
  <p>So the questions are:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Do all features from Android plugin for eclipse still work?</li>
  <li>Is it going to be more difficult than using the normal build (I believe it is Ant but not certain)</li>
  <li>Any other drawbacks, e.g. the file size of the final application (Maven tends to bundle a lot of things together) or the difficulties of getting the latest libraries on maven repository (which is probably differnt for Android).</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Please do not point to this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4015036/maven-support-for-android-projects">maven support for android projects?</a></p>
  
  <p>I would like an answer from experience developers. I already know that it is possible to use maven for an Android app. All I need to know is whether I should use it.</p>