> Sven,
> I agree heartily with your thoughts on being able to build by finding
> dependencies and understanding what version is where and what's being used.
>
> I've always built Java3D this way until recently.
>
> In the Android world it seems almost all development is aggressively based
> around gradle.build managing all dependencies for a developer, such that no
> one would use a library if it wasn't published on something like maven central.
>
> In truth it seems the modern "framework development"world would like to hide
> all implementation details from the "developer", no one needs to know anything
> other than the magical string incantations that make magic happen, Android
> layouts work only via trial and error, you can never simply understand what's
> required.