Re: Android development

[r0ller <r0ller%freemail.hu@localhost>]

Hi Riza,

As far as I can tell, natively not. I mean that linux emulation is definitely necessary. Mainly because the android dev environment is pretty much bound to Linux. I tried to build ndk on NetBSD but there are quite some stuff to change in their scripts -see 2) in this post:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2016/11/24/msg019072.html

Even when using linux emulation, there's an unimplemented linux syscall (fallocate) which prevents writing out the binary in the end. However, I found a workaround by using named pipes (fifo) so building an android ndk lib on NetBSD is actually possible via Linux emulation. I'm doing it regularly and the ndk lib does work well on android.

I cannot tell much about the sdk part but there are some who have tried Android Studio again via Linux emulation though I can't recall anything about how well it works.

What I tried was Qt Creator to build an Android app. You can find my notes on it here (along with some others):

https://github.com/r0ller/NetBSD-Qt-Notes

After that you'll need to get all the different parts of the Android SDK (which Google makes harder and harder) that Qt Creator requires.

In the end, it turned out that Qt Creator did not pick the right qmake but when copied the effective qmake call then it did build all the necessary libraries. That bug may have been resolved since then. However, there's a separate tool to build an apk of the generated artifacts which I did not succeed and haven't tried again.

Best regards,
r0ller

-------- Eredeti levél --------
Feladó: Riza Dindir 
Dátum: 2021 szeptember 23 07:22:25
Tárgy: Android development
Címzett: Netbsd-Users-List 

Hello All,

Can we build android apps using the android sdk and adb on netbsd? Or
any other means to develop android applications for mobile devices and
smart phones?

Regards,
Riza