This report is a bit late as I had exams today and yesterday, and in the previous week as well, so I've been busy with those.
As such, I haven't been able to do as much as I would've liked to, but my exams will end this week, and after that I'll be completely free. I try to keep up with the various relevant mailing lists and also with the bugs reported, and there have been a few reported about 'apktool' recently. I looked at something reported in bugs 824930 and 824933 apktool needs framework-res.apk (the base android framework) to decompile other applications, which is currently not included in the debian package. Upstream doesn't include it in their source, and instead chooses to compile and place it only in their binary releases. We already have a android-tools/android-platform-frameworks-base repository containing the relevant source code, and so I was looking at getting the 'aapt' package to build the framework-res.apk However, the aapt we currently have in debian doesn't work (same issue also faced by another student, seamlik) - an aapt binary compiled in the google android sources is fine, and I was able to use that to create a working framework-res.apk The issue is due to a subtle compiler error related to asserts, the same code which compiles in google's android tree doesn't compile for us, need to look into that. Apart from that I've also been looking at getting an offline copy of the android-sdk-docs buildable, they're included with the android sdk binaries google provides. I'll be able to do much more starting next week, as by then I'll have had a meeting with my mentors and other students (we have one scheduled), and also not have to worry about exams. Regards, Chirayu Desai
