How to build for Android

[amerkoleci]

I saw your commits into dev branch and android build script changes, how can I build for Android minko engine?

[warrenseine]

Hi,

The documentation is not up-to-date, but there's a start here (only tested on OS X).

[amerkoleci]

No, on windows it does not work, your search ANDROID with meaning of ANDROID NDK, under windows there is no "toolchains/default.txt" so probably this need to be fixed.

[JMLX42]

It should be fixed next week.

[JMLX42]

We've made tremendous progress on the Android build, especially for Windows. The changes will be available in dev next week.

[amerkoleci]

Can't wait to see changes, thanks.

[JMLX42]

The documentation has been updated and should now be complete:

http://doc.v3.minko.io/wiki/Compiling_the_SDK_for_Android

The actual required changes for this doc to work will soon be merged in dev.

[daiwei1999]

Can't wait to see the updated Android build process, the old process is quite complex.

[JMLX42]

As you can read on the doc above, as soon as you have properly installed the Android SDK + NDK, building for android is as simple as:

make config=android_release

And the app is automagically deployed on your Android device.

I don't think we could make this any simpler :)

[daiwei1999]

I want to build Android version on Windows. I followed the doc above and found "tool\win\script\install_jni.bat" file is missing.

[daiwei1999]

Android NDK from r8 version has already integrated with cygwin. So I think the installation process of cygwin on Windows in the doc above can be omitted.

[warrenseine]

I'm sorry, we're still patching things up on Windows. The documentation might not be up-to-date.

Regarding Cygwin, the documentation on the official Android website is scarce (or non-existent), so I thought it'd be better to explain it here.

[DevinCharles]

I'm having problems building for Android in Linux. I tried script/solution_gmake_android.sh per the documentation but that file seems to just be a link that can't be found.

I tried running ./script/solution_gmake_gcc.sh as I see that's what's contained in solution_gmake_android.sh but that doesn't do much for me either. It produces a make file but make config=android_release fails on it.

I imagine it's something simple that I'm doing wrong, just can't figure out what it is...

[warrenseine]

The documentation says that you should run tool/lin/script/solution_gmake_android.sh to build the framework.

@DevinCharles are you trying to build the framework or a separate project? Can you detail what's failing?