I used only ant to build apk, never tried android studio, eclipse or other gui tool.
I had no problem in using ant last time I tired, I'll check again. On Sat, Aug 11, 2018, 2:27 AM David Mitchell <davidmitch...@att.net> wrote: > I tried the jandroid process. It initially failed with > tools/ant/build.xml not > found. This seems to be expected: > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42912824/the-ant-folder-is-suddenly-missing-from-android-sdk-did-google-remove-it > > Android team has decided to remove all old and obsolete scripts from SDK > in > march release of 25.3.0 SDK Tools > > Changes: > > Obsolete/deprecated tools have been removed: > android > ddms (instead see Using DDMS) > draw9patch (instead see Draw 9-patch) > hierarchyviewer (instead see Profile Your Layout with Hierarchy > Viewer) > traceview (instead see Profiling with Traceview and dmtracedump) > ant scripts > Project and activity template > > I tried he work-around (install tools/ant/build.xml from an older tools > release), which failed: > > ant release && ./deploy.sh > Buildfile: /home/me/Downloads/Android/jandroid-master/build.xml > [taskdef] Could not load definitions from resource anttasks.properties. > It > could not be found. > [taskdef] Could not load definitions from resource emma_ant.properties. > It > could not be found. > > Poking on the web, it looks as if ant is not well supported any more and > folks > are migrating to gradle (or Android Studio). > > Does this look like the best approach? > > Thanks, > David Mitchell > > > On 8/10/2018 10:14, David Mitchell wrote: > > Bill, > > > > Thanks for the nudge. My old eyes missed the separate git repository > for jandroid. > > > > All the best, > > David Mitchell > > > > On 8/10/2018 09:56, bill lam wrote: > >> build.xml should already been there, just > >> ant release > >> should build the unsigned apk > >> > >> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 9:49 PM David Mitchell <davidmitch...@att.net> > wrote: > >> > >>> It looks like the only place libjpcre.so is used is in jd. But, jd > looks > >>> like > >>> it won't run on the 32 bit default Android distribution. > >>> > >>> So, for now, I'll ignore pcre and move on to creating an apk. Does > anyone > >>> have > >>> any suggestions for creating a J Android apk from the binaries created > by > >>> ndk-build? It looks like the choices are to use Android Studio, using > >>> gradlew > >>> or using ant with some sort of build.xml. > >>> > >>> Unless there is a build.xml hiding somewhere, all of these look like > they > >>> would > >>> require reverse-engineering the current distribution J Android APK. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> David Mitchell > >>> > >>> On 8/9/2018 09:48, David Mitchell wrote: > >>>> I used that Android.mk for pcre2. The Android build references both > >>> pcre and > >>>> pcre2: > >>>> > >>>> 1. make a symlink in jni folder > >>>> > >>>> $ cd jni > >>>> $ ln -sf ../../jsrc . > >>>> $ ln -sf ../../hostdefs. > >>>> $ ln -sf ../../netdefs . > >>>> $ ln -sf ../../../../src/pcre . > >>>> $ ln -sf ../../../../src/pcre2 . > >>>> $ cd .. > >>>> > >>>> 2. build using ndk in the current folder > >>>> > >>>> $ ndk-build > >>>> > >>>> I tried using the same Android.mk with pcre, but it did not work well. > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> David Mitchell > >>>> > >>>> On 8/9/2018 08:51, chris burke wrote: > >>>>> https://github.com/jsoftware/base8/blob/master/regex/make/Android.mk > >>>>> > >>>>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 2:17 AM David Mitchell <davidmitch...@att.net > > > >>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> I have almost gotten this to build. The last step I have is finding > >>>>>> Android.mk > >>>>>> for pcre. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Any help would be appreciated. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Thanks, > >>>>>> David Mitchell > >>>>>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>>> For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >>>>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>> For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >>>>> > >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
