[shelled]

And Gradle? Does skip the Gradle and that nightmare of a dependency management and handling?

[mavamaarten]

I'm totally biased towards Android development using Gradle and kotlin.

Gradle can be a pain, but if I look at what our neighbors at the iOS team experience (constantly having to manually merge project files, not being able to simply import some libraries, ...) it's hardly a nightmare.

Specifically adding dependencies is super easy? Just specify which repo they're in (mavenCentral or Google or whatever) and add dependencies under "dependencies". When running or syncing, Gradle does the rest.

[mihael]

Yes, exactly. SwifDroid automatically wires all the necessary Gradle dependencies, so you don’t have to manage them manually.

[nicoburns]

Does it still ultimately call into gradle to perform the build?

[mihael]

Yes, since we need Gradle dependencies in order to build rich UI with AndroidX or Material Design. But if you're interested in a minimal approach without Gradle, check out the example by @purpln here: https://github.com/purpln/android-example