[Android-tools-devel] NDK support for Debian

[LM]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 10:34 AM, 殷啟聰 | Kai-Chung Yan
<seamlikok at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for trying our packages, looks like the toolchain is promising.

Am happy to help test.

> Unfortunately, we currently do not have any plan to support the NDK, as it requires lots of investigations. But we do prepare a non-free NDK downloader package [1].
>
> [1]: https://packages.debian.org/sid/google-android-ndk-installer

I noticed that.  Unfortunately, it only looked like it was supported
on arm and I'm developing on an x86 machine and cross-compiling to the
various systems I need to support.

If there are any plans in the future to create NDKs, I'd be happy to
help out or test.  Would think you'd just need a cross-compiler built
for a particular target (armv7-a, x86, etc.), bionic as the run time
library and ability to work with the various standard Android
libraries (like liblog, libGLESv2).  Haven't checked the details, but
noticed at least one project that's offering its own NDK (
https://www.crystax.net/ ).  If there's interest from Debian
users/developers, think it would certainly be worth looking into
creating Android NDK package(s) for Debian.

I'm in the process of porting several Open Source SDL and FLTK
applications to Android, so the majority of my Android development is
going to be in C/C++ and will require some kind of cross-compiler and
a native development kit.