[Android-tools-devel] what needs doing for stretch?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

F-Droid's buildserver can use packages from backports already.

As for the Support Library, I'm thinking now that Debian is not really
the place for those libraries.  They are Java libraries that will only
ever be used on Android.  They do need to be present on the Debian
system to build apps.  I do think it is important to have free software
builds of the Android Support Libraries, that should happen as part of
F-Droid or perhaps even its own project that generates its own maven
repo.  "android-platform-23" is required for things like apktool to run
on Debian, so that makes sense to include.

We could do that on gitlab.com, for example, with gitlab-ci running the
build and publishing to a maven repo that works on gitlab pages.

Any ideas how hard it would be to build the support libraries?
Hopefully they are straightforward, they are after all just plain Java.

.hc

殷啟聰:
> Seems that a newer API platform isn't going into Stretch, now that it
> entered full freeze. But we can still backport it to Stretch as well
> as other future packages. Does F-Droid's official build server uses
> backport?
> 
> In order to build apps we still need to package the Support Library.
> And I remember that in order to use the latest Support Library, the
> app must be compiled against the latest API platform, which means we
> still need to package the latest API platform. I don't feel like
> maintaining multiple versions of the Support Library. In that case,
> does that mean we eventually only need to maintain the latest API
> platform? Since the older platforms are not used in the compilation.
> 
> 2016-12-21 2:34 GMT+08:00 Chirayu Desai <chirayudesai1 at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> On 12/20/2016 01:08 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> So we're looking good for getting 7.0.0 into stretch!  The
>>> build/platform tools are pretty complete, and the LAVA group (Neil
>>> Williams, etc) are already using our adb/fastboot instead of the old
>>> android-tools package.  In January, we can deal with removing
>>> src:android-tools and migrating users from android-tools-* to our
>>> packages by filing RC bugs.  This will only be changing the packaging,
>>> so I think its appropriate to do after the freeze, given limited time
>>> before the freeze.
>>>
>>> I would really love to see android-platform-tools-base v2.2.x and
>>> android-framework-24 in stretch.  I should be able to find some time to
>>> help, but I've never worked on those packages.  Any tips?  Will they be
>>> a lot of work?
>> I can't comment on android-platform-tools-base.
>> However, for android-framework-24, the current android-framework-23
>> should make it easy in theory, and one should be able to keep the
>> makefiles from that and add / remove files which were added / removed in
>> API 24.
>>
>> d/build.gradle has some whitelisted/blacklisted files which would need
>> to be updated
>> d/aidl.mk contains the list of aidl files actually included in the
>> android system build, and not all aidl files under frameworks/base. List
>> can be copied from frameworks/base/Android.mk
>>
>> Now I haven't really looked at the framework part of the Android 24
>> source code in detail to know if they moved things around repos, or how
>> would the switch to openjdk (mainly in libcore) would affect us.
>>
>>
>> And one more thing, having API 24 should make creating a API 25 package
>> easier as well, as there aren't as many changes from 24->25, compared to
>> 23->24 (or any other major Android version).
>>>
>>> With that in place, I can build the first official app release using
>>> only Debian packages: the F-Droid Privileged Extension. Its a perfect
>>> example for building our Debian packages since it is a very
>>> security-sensitive app:
>>> https://gitlab.com/fdroid/privileged-extension/
>>>
>>> .hc
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