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Bug#459219: Additional tools



The sdklib package is ready, and I am going to upload it to mentors
after having filed the RFP and ITP bugs during the next few days.

If nobody objects, I would like to keep this bugreport-thread as some
sort of reference collection for the other android sdk packages.

Am Mittwoch, den 05.09.2012, 02:01 +0200 schrieb Stefan Handschuh: 
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for everyone's effort on this.
> 
> AFAIK there are only a few more things to add in order to be able to
> create android packages in debian (please correct me, if I am wrong on
> that):
> - aapt (c++, "resource file compiler")
> - dx.jar (java, creates dalvik bytecode)
> - sdklib.jar (java, creates the apk out of the dalvik bytecode and
> compiled sources)
> - zipalign (c++, optional as in only aligns the package)
> - android.jar (java, actual android library used for creating java
> bytecode, different for each api level)
> 
> The first four can be used for all android api levels, I think. In which
> extend the android.jar is backwards compatible is something, I do not
> know.
> 
> Of course it would be also nice to have the eclipse plugin but anyway,
> with the above written 5(4) components and the existing android-tools
> packages, one could start develop using a real phone as an emulator
> substitute until the emulator get packaged.
> 
> As the sourcecode is available for all these components, 'proper' debian
> packages can be created.
> 
> Best regards,
>    Stefan

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