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

[Chirayu Desai]

The platform packages naming / location sounds good.

However, a lot of what the platform zip contains is not available in
Debian right now, and won't really be used anytime soon.
Also, it is generated by grabbing a bunch of components which are
built as part of either the standard Android build process or the
Android SDK build process, both of which are complex. So it would be
best to evaluate what we need from it right now and get that building.

As for framework-res.apk, as discussed on IRC, it is already built for
android.jar, so we can have a separate package for it which would be
used by android.jar as well as apktool right now.
I have that working, see:
https://gitlab.com/cde/debian_android-tools_android-platform-frameworks-base/commit/1ea978033eb92e0c7c14f1ca40c61d84b2a2e7f1

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
> I don't see framework-res.apk in the official Android SDK at all, I
> think that's an OS filename, not an SDK file.  In the SDK, the framework
> res files are bundled into android.jar and/or installed into the subpath
> data/res/.
>
> Also, the platforms packages will be arch-independent since they contain
> nothing that is meant to be executable by the machine that they are
> installed on.
>
> .hc
>
> 殷啟聰:
>> 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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