[Android-tools-devel] Fwd: google-android-platform-* packages WAS: android-platform-libcore/6.0.1+r16-1

[Chirayu Desai]

Hi,

This idea sounds good, and should make us able to have an android app
building shortly.
The "proper" SDK could come later, lots of work to do there still.

There's one thing which has discussed at DebConf (informal
conversation at some random place) - what we could do is use the
components we have building and working currently right now, and then
grab the rest from google / use contrib packages. However, it might be
tricky to combine files from multiple packages, I hadn't really
thought about that before. Still putting this thought here, if it
turns out to be helpful.

One more thing, do we want to have some sort of integration with the
SDK Manager ('android' command) and debian packages? I.e., user can
pick SDK platform 23 and get the platform package Mouaad created
installed. If he picks emulator, he can get the emulator images
downloaded directly from Google if they're not in a debian package. It
would involve some code changes though, but I'm not sure exactly how
much work would that be, and if it would be worth it to do that right
now for the installer packages.
It could still be useful later though, when we have platform packages
built from source.
And either way, part of this was discussed earlier as well, where the
user should still be able to install his own packages / add custom
stuff / install the missing packages from Google easily in a way that
works with the existing debian packages.

I'm just getting back to work after the DebConf trip, lots of catching
up to do - I did read all of the e-mails when there, just didn't get a
chance to send a proper reply until today.

Regards,
Chirayu Desai

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:15 PM, Mouaad Aallam <mouaad at aallam.com> wrote:
> A start package for Google Android SDK Platform 24[1]
>
> [1]: https://github.com/Aallam/debian_google-android-platform-24-installer
>
> Mouaad Aallam
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Mouaad Aallam <mouaad at aallam.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> This approach would make the packaging simpler, but I think we would
>>> provide a much better experience to users who are installing the
>>> platforms if there was one Debian package per platform package.  That's
>>> how the platforms are represented using the `android list sdk` command
>>> line tool, and the `android` GUI package installer.  That's what Android
>>> devs are used to.
>>>
>>> I think it also provides a more Debian-ish experience, I need X so I do
>>> `apt-get install X`.
>>
>>
>> Alright then, that was just an idea I had :D, let's do it the way you just
>> discribed then.
>
>
>
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