[Android-tools-devel] Documenting the android build process for tools relevant to us.

[Chirayu Desai]

Hi,

I have pushed two PoC patches to my personal gitlab account. [1] [2]
The frameworks-base patch is based off the tag debian/1%6.0.1+r16-1
(as I wanted to the branch name to imply) because it was simpler to
build this for testing against that due to the work in progress state
of the android.jar effort.

Anyways, I am able to build apktool with the changes, and it is able
to decompile apps.
The commit messages have some notes, and the changes could also use comments.

Regards,
Chirayu Desai

[1]: https://gitlab.com/cde/debian_android-tools_apktool/commits/f-r-apk/master
[2]: https://gitlab.com/cde/debian_android-tools_android-platform-frameworks-base/commits/f-r-apk/6.0.1+r16-1

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Chirayu Desai <chirayudesai1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about a separate package which provides just framework-res.apk?
> The android.jar work is currently in the process of being redone, if I can
> call it that, and also it might be better in general to have a separate
> package.
>
> I was thinking of creating 'android-frameworks-res', provided by
> 'src:android-platform-frameworks-base'
> Both apktool and libandroid-23-java could depend on it.
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 5:04 PM 殷啟聰 <seamlikok at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was also wondering which package should provide the
>> "framework-res.apk". aapt looks good but in fact the APK is unrelated
>> to this program. How about libandroid-23-java which provides the
>> "android.jar"?
>>
>>   1. "framework-res.apk" is built during the process of building
>> "android.jar".
>>   2. aapt is arch-dependent package and "framework-res.apk" is
>> arch-independent file, although I don't know if this point actually
>> matters. Probably reduce the burden of buildd.debian.org ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kai-Chung Yan
>>
>> 2016-06-07 19:24 GMT+08:00 Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org>:
>> > On 05.06.2016 11:47, Chirayu Desai wrote:
>> >> Hello everyone,
>> >>
>> >> This is to serve as a recap of the discussion had on IRC
>> >> (#debian-mobile) on June 2.
>> >> One of the major things discussed was the build process of
>> >> android.jar, we looked at how it is built in the android tree. I feel
>> >> like that could be documented in a place, so I created a wiki page
>> >> [1].
>> >
>> > Good idea. I presume shipping framework-res.apk with
>> > src:android-framework-base would be an easy task. The question is which
>> > package should provide the resource files? Maybe aapt? Apktool already
>> > depends on aapt, so that would be like killing two birds with one stone.
>> >
>> > Markus
>> >
>> >
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