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Thomas Martitz aa0f895572 The zip target isn't a good prerequisite for another make target so remove it. zip has no prerequisites, so it's always made, which leads to targets depending on zip to be also always made. In the end that means that libmisc.so is always unzipped even if it didn't change. OTOH it means that make zip is now needed explicitly; so it now goes like 'make && make zip && make apk git-svn-id: svn://svn.rockbox.org/rockbox/trunk@28068 a1c6a512-1295-4272-9138-f99709370657		2010-09-12 20:50:30 +00:00
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gen/org/rockbox	Fix launcher icon (once more).	2010-08-06 00:53:02 +00:00
res	Delete now unused icons.	2010-08-04 20:38:25 +00:00
src/org/rockbox	Adhere to the 80-char line width limit.	2010-09-12 20:10:05 +00:00
.classpath	Rockbox as an application: Commit current Android port progress.	2010-08-02 20:34:47 +00:00
.project	Rockbox as an application: Commit current Android port progress.	2010-08-02 20:34:47 +00:00
android.make	The zip target isn't a good prerequisite for another make target so remove it.	2010-09-12 20:50:30 +00:00
AndroidManifest.xml	Android: Fix a problem where entered Rockbox multiple times (with multiple instances on the activity stack) until it was exited once with the back button.	2010-09-12 09:50:45 +00:00
build.sh	Android port: also include native libraries in APK file	2010-08-17 21:13:13 +00:00
default.properties	Android port: allow moving application to SD card on Froyo targets	2010-08-16 20:47:46 +00:00
README	Extend android.make so that it can generate a debug signed apk.	2010-09-02 03:40:02 +00:00

README

This folder contains the java parts needed to build an Rockbox as an
application for android.

* Prerequisites

Download and install the Android SDK[1] and NDK[2].
After you extracted the SDK, you need to run <sdk-dir>/tools/android in order to
install the actual platform sdk from the available packages tab (SDK Platform
Android 1.5 or above should work).
In the virtual devices tab you can also setup a emulator.


Then, make sure you have the ANDROID_SDK_PATH and ANDROID_NDK_PATH (pointing to
the each's root directory) environment variables set up, otherwise configure will fail to find the compiler and
compiling the java files will fail.

* Build instructions

Use this as your build folder, using '../tools/configure' etc.
    $ ../tools/configure # type 200, then chose A for android and your screen resolution
    $ make

After the build finished, you can create a Rockbox.apk in bin/
    $ make apk

You can install that on the device
    $ $ANDROID_SDK_PATH/tools/adb install -r bin/Rockbox.apk


NOTE: make apk needs creates a debug signed .apk, not suitable for distribution.
It expects that this key already exists.
You should be able to generate it with "keytool" using the following options:
* Keystore name: "debug.keystore"
* Keystore password: "android"
* Key alias: "androiddebugkey"
* Key password: "android"
* CN: "CN=Android Debug,O=Android,C=US"
* validity: 365 days

Google docs mention the SDK tools can generate it as well, but I haven't found how yet.    

[1]: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html 
[2]: http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html
[3]: http://asantoso.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/how-to-build-android-application-package-apk-from-the-command-line-using-the-sdk-tools-continuously-integrated-using-cruisecontrol/
[4]: http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html