[Android-tools-devel] Serious bugs and errors in android tools and gradle build process on Debian 10 Buster.

Wed Aug 14 13:31:03 BST 2019

AFAIK all of Gradle is broken, plus the specific "build-tools" component, which Gradle either can't find or can't find a "license" for, regardless of whether I use upstream gradlew or Debian's gradle. AFAIK platform-23 appears to be intact though, I just can't build apps.

On August 14, 2019 5:29:27 AM MDT, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>Hey Alexander!
>
>Thanks for your interest!  I think you want to leave out the
>init.gradle
>pit, and include this line in your build.gradle:
>
> maven { url 'file:///usr/share/maven-repo' }
>
>For example:
>https://github.com/guardianproject/LocationPrivacy/blob/master/build.gradle
>
>These are the steps I took to get it working on Debian/stretch.  It
>should be similar on buster:
>
>*
>https://github.com/guardianproject/LocationPrivacy/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml
>*
>https://gitlab.com/fdroid/privileged-extension/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml#L16
>
>Fluff Rabbit,
>
>I understand your frustration.  Google makes it really hard to package
>the Android tools, they really don't care about free software, so they
>include all sorts of mystery blobs, etc.  Sounds like both of you think
>it is important to have truly free Android tools.  So helping us
>figuring out what is working and what specifically is broken would be a
>great contribution.
>
>.hc
>
>Fluff Rabbit via Android-tools-devel:
>> Welcome to the club. AFAIK Debian's Android build tools are broken.
>I've complained so many times the devs have stopped responding. In the
>meantime, Debian includes installers for Google's tools from Google,
>which I think are more likely to work.
>> 
>> On August 14, 2019 3:12:56 AM MDT, Alexander <remake347 at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>>> Hello from Russia.
>>>
>>> I have Debian 10 Buster. I beginner in android developement. Early
>I'd
>>> success build firs android program in Eclipse (in Etch etc..). Now I
>>> try to build F-Droid application from Git in command line and not
>have
>>> success. All what I done is fron wiki source
>>> https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps
>>> and
>>> https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools
>>>
>>> It's all steps 've been 100% done! But.. nothing. I've tired.
>>>
>>> What I've done:
>>> 1) Install Debian 10 Buster (stable) using minimum ISO with net
>>> installation.
>>> 2) apt install android-sdk android-sdk-platform-23
>>> 3) export ANDROID_HOME=/usr/lib/android-sdk
>>> 4) apt install libgradle-android-plugin-java (from SID)
>>> 5) apt install android-sdk-helper (from SID)
>>>
>>> note: Repositories SIDs added with Synaptic package manager because
>>> libgradle-android-plugin-java and android-sdk-helper not exist in
>>> Buster stable repositories.
>>>
>>> 6) In build.gradle, change compileSdkVersion to 23 and
>>> buildToolsVersion to 24.0.0 (I've tried use '27.0.1' too).
>>> 7) All steps from
>>> https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps was done
>>> completely.
>>> 8) Get F-droid source code from git.
>>> 9) Accepting SDK license (note: using android-sdk from Debian 10
>>> Buster).
>>> 10) Try to build F-droid source code by command "~/Git/fdroidclient$
>>> gradle build
>>> --init-script
>>> /usr/share/android-sdk-helper/init.gradle~/Git/fdroidclient$
>>> gradle build --init-script
>/usr/share/android-sdk-helper/init.gradle"
>>>
>>> I HAVE MANY ERRORS.
>>> 1. First try to build:
>>>
>>> .......... CUT
>>>> Configure project :app 
>>> buildTypes.debug defaultConfig.versionCode 1007050
>>> Project evaluation failed including an error in afterEvaluate {}.
>Run
>>> with --stacktrace for details of the afterEvaluate {} error.
>>>
>>>
>>> FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
>>>
>>> * Where:
>>> Build file '/home/alexander/Git/fdroidclient/app/build.gradle' line:
>91
>>>
>>> * What went wrong:
>>> A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.
>>>> Could not set unknown property 'includeAndroidResources' for object
>>>>   of type
>>>>  
>com.android.build.gradle.internal.dsl.TestOptions$UnitTestOptions.
>>>
>>> * Try:
>>> Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info
>or
>>>  --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full
>>>  insights.
>>>
>>> * Get more help at https://help.gradle.org
>>>
>>> BUILD FAILED in 0s
>>> .......... CUT
>>> ..........
>>>
>>> That error I've try to delete by
>>> editing /home/alexander/Git/fdroidclient/app/build.gradle
>>>
>>> That code I used:
>>> testOptions {
>>>        unitTests.all {
>>>            includeAndroidResources = true
>>>            jacoco {
>>>                includeNoLocationClasses = true
>>>            }
>>>            forkEvery = 40
>>>            maxHeapSize = "2g"
>>>        }
>>>    }
>>>
>>> Now error was fixed. But have another errors!
>>>
>>> 2. Gradle crying about not existing method 'IMPLEMENTATION ()'
>>>
>>> I've try to change words
>>> in /home/alexander/Git/fdroidclient/app/build.gradle from
>>> "IMPLEMENTATION" on "COMPILE". And now it works.
>>>
>>> That's is:
>>> dependencies {
>>>    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:27.1.1'
>>>    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.1.1'
>>>    compile 'com.android.support:gridlayout-v7:27.1.1'
>>>    compile 'com.android.support:support-annotations:27.1.1'
>>>    compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:27.1.1'
>>>    compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:27.1.1'
>>>    ..................
>>> ..............CUT
>>>
>>> 3. Now gradle crying about "No Build-tools available"! *UCK!!!
>>>
>>> That's is:
>>>        at
>>>
>org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ThreadFactoryImpl$ManagedThreadRunnable.run(ThreadFactoryImpl.java:55)
>>>        at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)
>>>
>>>> Configure project :app 
>>> buildTypes.debug defaultConfig.versionCode 1007050
>>>
>>>
>>> FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
>>>
>>> * What went wrong:
>>> A problem occurred configuring project ':app'.
>>>> No Build-tools available.
>>>
>>> * Try:
>>> Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info
>or
>>>  --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full
>>>  insights.
>>>
>>> * Get more help at https://help.gradle.org
>>>
>>> BUILD FAILED in 36s
>>> ..................CUT
>>>
>>> and I don't know how to fix it!
>>>
>>> Can you help me to build first android application in Debian 10
>Buster
>>> on example F-Droid source from git?
>>>
>>> I have a backup F-Droid source in another directory. So I can start
>>> build process from zero.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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