The tutorial also said that you are placing this string in an xml file for easy localization in the future. I am not defending their setup, but it sends a wrong message when you skip parts of the sentence.
class MyApp extends AndroidApp {
void main() {
Document.write("hello world");
Document.write("<button id=\"foo\">blah</button>");
}
}
Ant? Maven?
Yeah I know it doesn't work like this now, but the designers of the entire Java/Android ecosystem should have designed it to be that simple.
The moment you get any of these build systems involved you instantly lose all hopes of DRY coding. Excerpts from an Ant build.xml file:
<target name="jar" depends="compile">
<mkdir dir="jar" />
<jar destfile="jar/HelloWorld.jar" basedir="classes">
<manifest>
<attribute name="Main-Class"
value="antExample.HelloWorld" />
</manifest>
</jar>
</target>
<target name="run" depends="jar">
<java jar="jar/HelloWorld.jar" fork="true" />
</target>