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

[殷啟聰]

Hi Hans,

How about the button simulation? Does plain QEMU support that? And
other phone stuff like GSM simulation? Where can we find the details
about the Android support?

Regards,
Kai-Chung Yan

2016-02-22 18:08 GMT+08:00 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>:
>
> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>>           Regards,
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>>
>>
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