Hi,
I've been trying to compile the orx android demo in the 1.6 release on my Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit setup;
After installing Android SDK and NDK, I've went to the demo directory at /dev-android/demo/android, modified the app/build.gradle to use my sdk version and issued ./gradlew build. The gradle build has reported success and I could find the .apk's under /dev-android/demo/android/app/build/outputs/apk.
The problem is that the generated apk's are faulty. When I try to run them on my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (ver. 4.1.2), they crash immediately.
While trying to figure out what's going on, I've discovered that the jni libs are nowhere to be found in the .apk and the source are never compiled anyway.
Trying to fix this, I've moved the app/src/jni folder to app/src/main/jni (where gradle seems to look for jni sources). This time, it tried to compile the sources, but the compilation failed, since this way, gradle seems to completely ignore the Android.mk in the jni folder, so the orx library doesn't get included in the compilation nor the linking.
When I go to the app/src folder and issue ndk-build, it actually successfully compiles the jni sources and creates all the .so files. I guess I could just copy these into the .apk manually, or possibly even modify the gradle build script to do that for me, but thought maybe there is an easier way.
Am I missing some README somewhere that explains the proper way to compile the demo? Or maybe the sources work on OSX or Windows out of the box?
Thanks!
Comments
I'll get this finished up hopefully on the weekend.
you need first to compile the jni before deploying on the device.
issue an ndk-build in /app/src, it will create an /app/src/libs folder with the .so files.
then ./gradlew installDebug should install the apk on your connected device
if you want to check the .apk, issue and ./gradelw assembleDebug
the apk is in /app/build/outputs/apk
Would you like me to add the ndk-build bit to the gradle script and create a pull request?