[Android-tools-devel] GSoC 2016 Week 1 & 2: Android SDK Tools in Debian

[Mouaad Aallam]

Hello,

In last days, and thanks to the discussions with my mentors, through IRC,
mumble, and emails, I got a good start with the project.

First I successfully setup a Debian chroot environment in order to test,
package and develop. [1]

Next, I've tried to build an app[2] using only the packaged android-SDK,
this process helped me to spot multiple bugs that I that I reported
(problems about JDK[3], Gradle[4], aapt[5], fastboot[6]...).
Reporting this bugs helped either open discussions about them and explain
the issue and try to understand them, or, fix them by committing patches to
my fork on gitlab[7], review them, then push them to Alioth[8].

While working on all of this, I also learned many things about Debian
developing[9] and maintaining[10] and more understanding the manuals that
I've already read and put this knowledge to practical cases.

This few days my experience with Debian has grown a lot ! and I feel more
excited than ever to work on this project !


[1]: http://aallam.com/debian-chroot-in-ubuntu/
[2]: https://github.com/guardianproject/ripple
[3]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826761
[4]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826870
[5]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827056
[6]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826991
[7]:
https://gitlab.com/Aallam/debian_android-sdk-meta/commit/a2a8ab7e1a715d3f8a878de11f4e9bb25564bae6
[8]:
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/android-tools/android-sdk-meta.git/commit/?id=347f2b5d5f82b5f796d82cc0affa13d094f302d7
[9]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer
[10]: https://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals


*Mouaad AALLAM*
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