[Android-tools-devel] Is Android AVD Manager still to be packaged or is it packaged ?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I was just thinking about the 'android' command for managing the SDK
downloads.  I was thinking that it should still be able to fully
download things from Google, but put those all into
/var/lib/android-sdk.  Since the official Android SDK binaries have a
non-free license, I think that Android developers will need access to
Google binaries for a long time coming.

FYI, the plain qemu in Debian runs the official Android emulator images
just fine.  Last I heard, Google was working to upstream their qemu
changes, so they might have achieved that already.

.hc

殷啟聰:
> Hi Shirish,
> 
> Thank you for testing Android SDK in Debian, our work is in early
> stage so your opinions help us a lot!
> 
> AVD Manager is part of this repository [1], which hosts all components
> of Android SDK with a GUI. Currently it is not packaged yet, but we
> have pacakged most C/C++ part and some of Java components without GUI
> [2]. The package is [3] and is created by Markus Koschany.
> 
> We will eventually package both Java repositories. And I have an idea
> that we should patch SDK Manager to download extra components to other
> places or completely disable the downloading. Also, the emulator is
> unavailable for now.
> 
> Regards,
> Kai-Chung Yan
> 
> [1]: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/swt
> [2]: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/base
> [3]: https://packages.debian.org/sid/android-platform-tools-base
> 
> 2016-02-21 6:58 GMT+08:00 shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com>:
>> Dear Kai-Chung Yan,
>>
>> Have addressed it to you as you got the ball rolling with doing it for
>> GSOC and have kept at it even after that.
>>
>> I have installed all the pieces that you have packaged so far
>> including the recently uploaded etc1tool .
>>
>> Now as I understand it, in order to play with android emulator I need
>> to first create a device profile which is helped by android AVD
>> Manager .
>>
>> http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/managing-avds.html
>>
>> If it's already packaged, how do I run it ?
>>
>> If not, then probably it's in queue to be done ?
>>
>> On my part I did go through all the packages that android-sdk pulls
>> for it meta-package to work, which includes all the depends but wasn't
>> any wiser than before.  Didn't find either android studio or Android
>> AVD Manager.
>>
>> Look forward to knowing the road ahead or if something has slipped me by.
>>
>> --
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