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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

This seems to cover it, starting at line 200:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/qemu/+/master/docs/DEVELOPMENT.TXT

And if you want to get deeper:
http://www.linaro.org/blog/core-dump/running-64bit-android-l-qemu/
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-11/msg01108.html


.hc

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,
>>>>           Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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>>>
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