Jenkins

Jenkins was originally released as Hudson in 2005 by Sun Microsystems. Over the years, it grew to become the most popular CI system in the Java community. Shortly after Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle, there was a conflict between Oracle and the Java community regarding Hudson. When that could not be resolved, the community continued to work on the project under the name Jenkins because the name Hudson is owned by Oracle.

The power of Jenkins lies in its plugin system. Everyone who has a need for new functionality in the build system can create a new plugin that extends the capabilities of Jenkins. This is also why setting up an automated build for Android apps or libraries is quite straightforward.

Setting up Jenkins

If you do not already have Jenkins installed and running on your build machine, download it from the website (https://jenkins-ci.org) and follow the steps.

Before you can get started with the actual Jenkins setup, you need to make sure you have all the required...