An interesting bit of Android's Rust integration: android.googlesource.com/platform/devel. It converts Cargo packages into Blueprint modules integrated into the normal build system. Blueprint is Android's declarative build system implemented on top of ninja. Fits into overall incremental build.
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Question, does this (and/or "Blueprint") create a path to writing Android software without using Gradle?
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The Android Open Source Project builds everything including apps with ninja. The modern approach is the declarative Blueprint system. The legacy approach is the template-based Android.mk build system which was the basis for Blueprint. It's far nicer than gradle...
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