- introduce better approach to specify the signing.gradle

- update various dependencies to their latest stable version

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 name: CI
 on:
-    push:
     pull_request:
 jobs:
     ci:

app/build.gradle

@@ -3,10 +3,8 @@ apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
 apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'
 apply plugin: 'com.mikepenz.aboutlibraries.plugin'
 
-//wrap with try and catch so the build is working even if the signing stuff is missing
-try {
-    apply from: '../../../signing.gradle'
-} catch (ignored) {
+if (getSigningFile() != null) {
+    apply from: "${getSigningFile()}"
 }
 
 android {
@@ -33,17 +31,15 @@ android {
             minifyEnabled false
         }
         release {
-            try {
+            if (getSigningFile() != null) {
                 signingConfig signingConfigs.release
-            } catch (ignored) {
             }
             zipAlignEnabled true
             minifyEnabled false
         }
         staging {
-            try {
+            if (getSigningFile() != null) {
                 signingConfig signingConfigs.release
-            } catch (ignored) {
             }
             applicationIdSuffix ".debugStaging"
             matchingFallbacks = ['debug']

build.gradle

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 buildscript {
+    apply from: 'configurations.gradle'
+
     ext {
         release = [
                 versionName: "8.3.1",
@@ -17,14 +19,14 @@ buildscript {
                 cardview        : '1.0.0',
                 appcompat       : '1.2.0',
                 recyclerview    : '1.1.0',
-                material        : '1.2.0',
+                material        : '1.2.1',
                 kotlin          : "1.4.10",
                 constraintLayout: '2.0.1',
                 iconics         : "5.0.3",
-                detekt          : '1.0.1',
-                fastadapter     : "5.1.0",
-                materialdrawer  : "8.1.0",
-                coreKtx         : "1.3.1"
+                detekt          : '1.12.0',
+                fastadapter     : "5.2.3",
+                materialdrawer  : "8.1.5",
+                coreKtx         : "1.3.2"
         ]
     }
 

configurations.gradle

@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2020 Mike Penz
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
+
+/**
+ * retrieves a value from the local properties
+ */
+ext.getLocalProps = {
+    Properties localProperties = new Properties()
+    localProperties.load(new File('local.properties').newDataInputStream())
+    return localProperties
+}
+
+/**
+ * helper method to retrieve a value either from a local property, or via the global defined properties
+ */
+ext.getLocalOrGlobalProperty = { key ->
+    try {
+        def val = getLocalProps().getProperty("$key")
+        if (val == null) {
+            val = getProperty("$key")
+        }
+        return val
+    } catch (ignored) {
+        return null
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * retrieves a value from the properties or falls back to the default
+ */
+ext.getProperyOrDefault = { key, defau ->
+    def val = null
+    try {
+        val = project.hasProperty(key) ? project.getProperty(key) : null
+    } catch (Exception ex) {
+    }
+    if (val != null && !val.toString().equals("")) {
+        return val
+    }
+    val = getLocalOrGlobalProperty(key)
+    if (val == null || val.toString().equals("")) {
+        return defau
+    } else {
+        return val
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * used to sign the app in release mode
+ * Further information can be found in the README.md
+ */
+ext.getSigningFile = {
+    return getLocalOrGlobalProperty("openSource.signing.file")
+}
+
+/**
+ * retrieves the current git hash
+ */
+ext.gitHash = { ->
+    try {
+        def outstream = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
+        exec {
+            commandLine 'git', 'rev-parse', '--short', 'HEAD'
+            standardOutput = outstream
+        }
+        return outstream.toString().trim()
+    } catch (Exception ex) {
+        logger.warn('The build was not able to resolve the git branch, this project seems to be not within a git project')
+        return ""
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * retrieves the current git branch
+ */
+ext.gitBranch = { ->
+    try {
+        def outstream = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
+        exec {
+            commandLine 'git', 'name-rev', '--name-only', 'HEAD'
+            standardOutput = outstream
+        }
+        return outstream.toString().trim()
+    } catch (Exception ex) {
+        logger.warn('The build was not able to resolve the git branch, this project seems to be not within a git project')
+        return ""
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * retrieves the current timestamp during the build
+ */
+ext.buildDate = { ->
+    return new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm").format(new Date())
+}
+
+/**
+ * Checks if this build is from an IDE
+ */
+ext.isIdeBuild = { ->
+    return project.properties['android.injected.invoked.from.ide'] == 'true'
+}