
In my previous post, I talked about how to set up a standalone Android build system, and in passing, mentioned pulling the source to be build from some repository. Of course, before you get to that point, you have to get the source into the repository, and if you are using Android Studio you also have a bunch of metadata files which you might or might not want to store.
With Git, this is where the .gitignore file comes in (other source repositories are available).