Hello r0ller

Seems there is no support. Will read more about it.

Regards
Riza

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021, 09:52 r0ller <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>

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