Completely agree with you Mats. I just wanted to point out to Maxi that it's possible to have an IoTivitiy SDK. Different aars for different archs.
-Shivam On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Mats Wichmann <mats at osg.samsung.com> wrote: > But you can't actually get those anywhere, can you? Anybody who wants > them has to build from the code first. I'm not sure it currently makes > sense to build "out of tree" but at some point that's got to become an > objective, whether for IoTivity itself or for someone who repackages it > (Linux distribution, for example)... to have an "sdk like" setup for > building stuff. > > > On 07/20/2016 04:22 PM, Shivam Verma wrote: > > There's an aar file for the android apis that is generated after the > build process. > > > > It contains everything you need to write a client side application. > > > > -Shivam > > > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:10 PM, maxi wu <maxi.wu at u-media.com.tw > <mailto:maxi.wu at u-media.com.tw>> wrote: > > > > I would like to have a .jar, but the current situation, I would say > I couldn?t see this coming any soon. > > Because, the .jar is just a binding layer over C++ object files. > Which means it does nothing without those C++ files. > > And those C++ files is built depending on ARCH, for example ARM. > > > > That means, the source code we have is not cross-platform. You need > different C++ object files for different platform. > > > > > *From:*iotivity-dev-bounces at lists.iotivity.org <mailto: > iotivity-dev-bounces at lists.iotivity.org> [mailto: > iotivity-dev-bounces at lists.iotivity.org <mailto: > iotivity-dev-bounces at lists.iotivity.org>] *On Behalf Of *Mehrtens, Hauke > > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 20, 2016 1:15 AM > > *To:* iotivity-dev at lists.iotivity.org <mailto: > iotivity-dev at lists.iotivity.org> > > *Subject:* [dev] IoTivity binary release for Android > > > > It would be nice to have IoTivity binaries (the shared libs and the > jar) for Android. This way a normal Android developer who wants to do > something with IoTivity does not have to compile some C code, but can just > use the precompiled binaries and build an Android app around it. > > I think having to use scons is a barrier for new developers and you > can build an Android app with just using Java if we would ship the android > binaries. > > It would be nice to have this for the next release. > > > > *Hauke Mehrtens* > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.iotivity.org/pipermail/iotivity-dev/attachments/20160720/0d80b1e3/attachment.html>
