title: Android - how to generate GreenDao Entities
body: <p>I'm handling an Android Project my company started last year.
  I got a GreenDaoGenerator project with the infamous custom ExampleDaoGenerator.java. I'm pretty sure this is all well configured in order to work well and generate my entities.</p>
  
  <p>I started developing the Android Project (which is in another folder/package, of course) but now I need to change the way Entities are instantiated in it.</p>
  
  <p>I have a good amount of classes with the</p>
  
  <pre><code>// THIS CODE IS GENERATED BY greenDAO, DO NOT EDIT. Enable "keep" sections if you want to edit. 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>on the top of them and I'd like to re-generate them since I commented out some rows in my custom ExampleDaoGenerator.</p>
  
  <p>How can I do that? GreenDaoGenerator is not an Android Studio project, doesn't have any build.gradle file. It doesn't have any .class file either, just the java file and libraries to load for DaoGeneration. I didn't find anywhere in GreenDao documentation how to run the proper generation and harvest the created classes.</p>
  
  <p>I tried of course <code>javac the.full.path/src/whatever/ExampleDaoGenerator.java</code> but it didn't work :-(</p>
  
  <p>Do you happen to see what I'm doing wrong? I expected Android Studio Project to re-generate the database whenever the signatures are changed but it seems like it does not.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>