Gradle plugin and libraries for J2objc development
Made by TOUCHLAB
Here’s a list of the libraries we’re currently working with.
J2objc ships with a few libraries. Rather than using the compiled versions, we’ve created Gradle dependencies from them so the Gradle plugin only needs the jre-emul libraries from J2objc’s distribution.
JUnit in J2objc is just the source jar translated, with Hamcrest.
J2objc has a highly modified implementation of Mockito that works in Objective-C. Again, we’ve packaged this up as a Gradle dependency rather than carry around J2objc’s artifacts. However, 2 important notes. Spy is not supported by J2objc’s implementation. We have a very hacked support of spy available, but hopefully somebody soon will create a real implementation. Also, J2objc’s version is 1.9.5, which is fairly old for Mockito. Version 2+ of Mockito itself is significantly different, so somebody would need to put some serious effort into sort that out.
The J2objc Gradle plugin just includes these two dependencies on all builds. We use them everywhere, and they’re relatively small, so we just put them in there.
compileOnly 'com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:3.0.2'
testImplementation 'com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:3.0.2'
j2objcOnly 'com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:3.0.2:sources'
compileOnly 'javax.inject:javax.inject:1'
testImplementation 'javax.inject:javax.inject:1'
j2objcOnly 'javax.inject:javax.inject:1:sources'
Gson is one of the first libraries pretty much everybody translates for J2objc.