that included legacy toolchains, so as to not break builds that require
toolchains no longer included in current versions of the NDK.
-The buildserver supports r9b with its legacy toolchains and the latest release
-as of writing this document, r10e. You may add support for more versions by
-adding them to 'ndk_paths' in your config file.
+The buildserver supports r9b with its legacy toolchains, r10e and the
+latest release as of writing this document, r12b. You may add support
+for more versions by adding them to 'ndk_paths' in your config file.
@item gradle=<flavour1>[,<flavour2>,...]
Build with Gradle instead of Ant, specifying what flavours to use. Flavours
archive. This app-specific policy setting can override that.
Currently the only supported format is "n versions", where n is the number
-of versions to keep.
+of versions to keep. Defaults to "3 versions".
@node Update Check Mode
@section Update Check Mode
@item
@code{None} - No checking is done because there's no appropriate automated way
of doing so. Updates should be checked for manually. Use this, for example,
-when deploying betas or patched versions; when builds are done in a directory
+when deploying unstable or patched versions; when builds are done in a directory
different to where the AndroidManifest.xml is; if the developers use the
Gradle build system and store version info in a separate file; if the
developers make a new branch for each release and don't make tags; or if you've
source repository is checked, looking for the highest version code. The
appropriateness of this method depends on the development process used by the
application's developers. You should not specify this method unless you're sure
-it's appropriate. It shouldn't be used if the developers like to tag betas or
-are known to forget to tag releases. Like RepoManifest, it will not return the
-correct value if the directory containing the AndroidManifest.xml has moved.
-Despite these caveats, it is the often the favourite update check mode.
+it's appropriate. It shouldn't be used if the developers like to tag unstable
+versions or are known to forget to tag releases. Like RepoManifest, it will not
+return the correct value if the directory containing the AndroidManifest.xml has
+moved. Despite these caveats, it is the often the favourite update check mode.
It currently only works for git, hg, bzr and git-svn repositories. In the case
of the latter, the repo URL must contain the path to the trunk and tags or
@cindex Current Version
The name of the version that is current. There may be newer versions of the
-application than this (e.g. betas), and there will almost certainly be older
-ones. This should be the one that is recommended for general use.
+application than this (e.g. unstable versions), and there will almost certainly
+be older ones. This should be the one that is recommended for general use.
In the event that there is no source code for the current version, or that
non-free libraries are being used, this would ideally be the latest
version that is still free, though it may still be expedient to
@section Setting up a build server
In addition to the basic setup previously described, you will also need
-a Vagrant-compatible Debian Testing base box called 'jessie32' (or jessie64
-for a 64-bit VM, if you want it to be much slower, and require more disk
-space).
+a Vagrant-compatible Debian Testing base box called 'jessie64'.
You can use a different version or distro for the base box, so long as you
don't expect any help making it work. One thing to be aware of is that
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