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Then it was able to generate adle and wire in those modules into adle. What is BMBF? BMBF ( Buildy McBuildface Basic Modular Build Format) was a tool written in Python to help modularize our mobile code base.īMBF provided guaranteed layered dependency order and reduced boilerplate in build files.īMBF used a structured and opinionated file system layout. Additionally, BMBF would generate Java source code for our analytics, feature gating, and other common libraries written in C++. These build files were autogenerated using an in-house system called BMBF. It was a meta-build system in the sense that, for most of our modules, we didn’t write the Gradle build files by hand. Since December 2016, Dropbox used a meta-build system to build our two mobile apps: Dropbox and Paper. However, some of our mission critical libraries will remain on C++ e.g.

Most recently in early 2019, we made the decision to move away from C++ development, read more about why here. We even open-sourced Djinni in 2014 to interface cross-platform C++ library code with platform-specific Java and Objective-C on Android and iOS. For a while, Dropbox invested heavily in cross-platform development via C++ that worked well for the apps that were developed at that time. One of the benefits is to easily share source code between our different mobile applications and across platforms. Java.sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.At Dropbox, we have a repository for all mobile development, called Xplat. Version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'description = 'maven-to-gradle' * This file was generated by the Gradle 'init' task. In the plugins section, we have ‘ java‘ which provides support for building any type of Java project, and ‘maven-publish' which provides support for publishing artifacts to Maven-compatible repositories. Also present is the attribute of sourceCompatibility, which tells us which Java version to use when compiling Java sources. We can see here that pom.xml attributes like groupId, version, and dependencies are translated to their Gradle equivalents. The adle file is the core component of our Gradle build process, and it is the direct equivalent of the pom.xml file for Maven builds.