Beginning Bazel: Building and Testing for Java, Go, and More

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9. Bazel and Android

P. J. McNerney¹ 

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Blackhawk, CO, USA

 

In the prior chapters, you used Bazel to develop functionality that would most likely be deployed to some backend server. However, Bazel can be (and is) used for more than just backend projects, able to handle mobile clients as well. In this chapter, we will explore using Bazel to build Android applications.

Setup

As previously, we will be building off of our prior chapters. Again, first verify that all of the Bazel-generated files are eliminated. Then, copy the work from the last chapter:

$ cd chapter_08

chapter_08$ bazel clean

chapter_08$ ls

WORKSPACE   client    proto   server

chapter_08$ cd ..

$ cp -rf ...