[Android-tools-devel] Android SDK into Debian

[Simon Fels]

Hey Hans Christoph,

joint efforts always sounds good.

However I can speak only for the android-headers package which I
maintain. The others are a little bit out of my scope. The reason for
the android-headers package currently is to give us access to the
various hardware abstraction APIs the Android SDK itself doesn't give
access to but we need to integrate Ubuntu Touch properly with a Android
based platform.

The headers the package contains are extracted from the AOSP trees and
grouped per platform API level.

We have to be carefully here and not mix up SDK provided headers and
those we take directly from the AOSP tree as they both provide different
level of access.

What are your exact plans on this? Do you want to bundle headers files
coming from the Android SDK with the android-headers package? IMHO
having a android-sdk-headers package would be more what we should do
then to indicate the important difference between both.

regards,
Simon

On 08.02.2016 08:37, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> Hey Ubuntu Android people!
> 
> I just saw that you recently updated the android-headers Ubuntu package.
>  I just wanted to check in and see if you're aware of the Debian
> android-tools packaging team and the packages that we have.  While we do
> not yet have the SDK headers packaged, we have most of the core SDK
> tools packaged (including adb, aapt, aidl, gradle, dx, zipalign), and
> are working fast towards getting a lot more into Debian before the
> Ubuntu LTS Debian Import Freeze.
> 
> We should join efforts to move faster and prevent duplicated efforts!
> 
> .hc
>