Updated CI Script for Android

changelogs/unreleased/update_android_ci.yml

+---
+title: Updated the Android CI Script
+merge_request: 34007
+author: s-ayush2903
+type: fixed

lib/gitlab/ci/templates/Android.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -4,32 +4,65 @@
 image: openjdk:8-jdk
 
 variables:
-  ANDROID_COMPILE_SDK: "28"
-  ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS: "28.0.2"
-  ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS: "4333796"
 
+  # ANDROID_COMPILE_SDK is the version of Android you're compiling with.
+  # It should match compileSdkVersion.
+  ANDROID_COMPILE_SDK: "29"
+
+  # ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS is the version of the Android build tools you are using.
+  # It should match buildToolsVersion.
+  ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS: "29.0.3"
+
+  # It's what version of the command line tools we're going to download from the official site.
+  # Official Site-> https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html
+  # There, look down below at the cli tools only, sdk tools package is of format:
+  #        commandlinetools-os_type-ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS_latest.zip
+  # when the script was last modified for latest compileSdkVersion, it was which is written down below
+  ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS: "6514223"
+
+# Packages installation before running script
 before_script:
   - apt-get --quiet update --yes
   - apt-get --quiet install --yes wget tar unzip lib32stdc++6 lib32z1
-  - wget --quiet --output-document=android-sdk.zip https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sdk-tools-linux-${ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS}.zip
-  - unzip -d android-sdk-linux android-sdk.zip
-  - echo y | android-sdk-linux/tools/bin/sdkmanager "platforms;android-${ANDROID_COMPILE_SDK}" >/dev/null
-  - echo y | android-sdk-linux/tools/bin/sdkmanager "platform-tools" >/dev/null
-  - echo y | android-sdk-linux/tools/bin/sdkmanager "build-tools;${ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS}" >/dev/null
-  - export ANDROID_HOME=$PWD/android-sdk-linux
-  - export PATH=$PATH:$PWD/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/
+
+  # Setup path as android_home for moving/exporting the downloaded sdk into it
+  - export ANDROID_HOME="${PWD}/android-home"
+  # Create a new directory at specified location
+  - install -d $ANDROID_HOME
+  # Here we are installing androidSDK tools from official source,
+  # (the key thing here is the url from where you are downloading these sdk tool for command line, so please do note this url pattern there and here as well)
+  # after that unzipping those tools and
+  # then running a series of SDK manager commands to install necessary android SDK packages that'll allow the app to build
+  - wget --output-document=$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools.zip https://dl.google.com/android/repository/commandlinetools-linux-${ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS}_latest.zip
+  # move to the archive at ANDROID_HOME
+  - pushd $ANDROID_HOME
+  - unzip -d cmdline-tools cmdline-tools.zip
+  - popd
+  - export PATH=$PATH:${ANDROID_HOME}/cmdline-tools/tools/bin/
+
+  # Nothing fancy here, just checking sdkManager version
+  - sdkmanager --version
+
+  # use yes to accept all licenses
+  - yes | sdkmanager --sdk_root=${ANDROID_HOME} --licenses || true
+  - sdkmanager --sdk_root=${ANDROID_HOME} "platforms;android-${ANDROID_COMPILE_SDK}"
+  - sdkmanager --sdk_root=${ANDROID_HOME} "platform-tools"
+  - sdkmanager --sdk_root=${ANDROID_HOME} "build-tools;${ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS}"
+
+  # Not necessary, but just for surity
   - chmod +x ./gradlew
-  # temporarily disable checking for EPIPE error and use yes to accept all licenses
-  - set +o pipefail
-  - yes | android-sdk-linux/tools/bin/sdkmanager --licenses
-  - set -o pipefail
 
+# Basic android and gradle stuff
+# Check linting
 lintDebug:
+  interruptible: true
   stage: build
   script:
     - ./gradlew -Pci --console=plain :app:lintDebug -PbuildDir=lint
 
+# Make Project
 assembleDebug:
+  interruptible: true
   stage: build
   script:
     - ./gradlew assembleDebug
@@ -37,7 +70,9 @@ assembleDebug:
     paths:
       - app/build/outputs/
 
+# Run all tests, if any fails, interrupt the pipeline(fail it)
 debugTests:
+  interruptible: true
   stage: test
   script:
     - ./gradlew -Pci --console=plain :app:testDebug