Maven android plugin error “constant expression required”

Question

I am writing maven build scripts for my project which has dependency to another android project as apklib . When I execute

mvn clean install

goal generate-sources executes successfully. But, R.java generated for apklib project contains non-constant variables ie public static int . So, that causes error

constant expression required

during compile time. My question is can I change default maven android plugin behaviour that passes argument --non-constant-id to aapt tool. Or you can suggest any other solution as well.

Details of build configuration:

Android plugin version: 3.6.0 Platform: 8 Platform version: 2.2.1

Answer 1

The error is causing, because resource ids are used inside switch case. And switch case requires constants. So, I am changing switch cases inside my APKLIB project to if-else statements. Please suggest if any other solution.