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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Since framework-res.apk has to be built anyway, then I think it makes
sense to package it.  Sorry I was a bit late to catch up on all the
details here.

In terms of apktool's path, I think the apktool should Depend: on
android-framework-res, then use a symlink to make sure it is in a path
where apktool expects it, i.e. debian/links.

.hc

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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