HaO: My intention is to collect reports building great Androwish with the aim to get stand-alone APK files with custom contents.
Contributions and ideas welcome.
Warning: I am an absolute beginner on Android.
Starting point is the description by chw at [L1 ] and the following quote from wiki page Androwish:
chw please fetch the sources (the big .tar.bz2), unpack it, have Android SDK and NDK installed, don't use Eclipse, adapt local.properties to where you've installed Android SDK, have your PATH properly set so that ndk-build can do its job, then invoke "ant debug", be patient, and you'll finally will have bin/AndroWish-debug.apk ready to be installed onto your device. I have never verified the build process in combination with Eclipse. Once upon a time, I did my very first steps using the tips from the SDL documentation regarding Android.
When you want to wrap your own app written as Tcl code, you should add it below assets/app, have the launching script as main.tcl, fiddle the toplevel AndroidManifest.xml to have your app/class name in, remove that AndroWishScript/Launcher stuff from the manifest (since not needed for a standalone app), derive your app main class (yes, some Java required) from src/tk/tcl/wish/AndroWish.java, e.g.
import tk.tcl.wish.AndroWish; public class TclTkRules extends AndroWish {}
fiddle the res directory with a new really kooool icon and title for your app.
A release source is on the web site. If an intermediate version should be used, one may clone the fossil repository and check out the latest checkin on trunk:
fossil clone http://anonymous:[email protected] androwish.fossil mkdir androwish cd androwish fossil open ../androwish.fossil rm .fslckout
Windows build stopped with ndk-build with a "command line to long" error. I tried cmd.exe and cygwin shell, same result.
Failed for me due to a to old clib.
chw remarked that he is using CentOS 6 or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Andriod NDK 9d. So this failure might be due to the fact, that I tried Android NDK 10d.
I installed VirtualBox on my Windows 8.1 and OpenSuSE 13.2 64 bit with 100GB HarDisk and 4GB Ram.
Activate Java 7 (e.g. 1.7):
update-alternatives --config java -> 1.7 update-alternatives --config javac -> 1.7 update-alternatives --config xml-commons-apis -> xerces-j2-xml-apis.jar
Set up Android build system:
cd ~ mkdir android cd android mkdir download
Downloaded in ~/android/download:
chw suggested to use the 9d release of the ndk instead of the current 10d due to the following reasons:
The download link is:
Unpack and install, androwish in folder "androwish" for easier access
cd ~/android tar xvzf download/android-sdk_r24.1.2-linux.tgz bzip2 -d download/android-ndk-r9d-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 tar xvf download/android-ndk-r9d-linux-x86_64.tar tar xvf download/androwish-e2aee3ea2ea718e7.tar.gz mv androwish-e2aee3ea2ea718e7 androwish
cd ~/android chmod +x download/android-ndk-r10d-linux-x86_64.bin download/android-ndk-r10d-linux-x86_64.bin
Open Android SDK manager:
~/android/android-sdk-linux/tools/android sdk -> Select Google APIs ARM EABI v7a System Image -> Unselect all other system images
Prepare build and let "android" create "local.properties":
export PATH=$PATH:~/android/android-sdk-linux/tools:~/android/android-ndk-r9d cd androwish android update project -p . --target 1
(the export command may be copied to ~/.bashrc to be active for each shell start)
On "ant debug", I had the following build error I could not solve:
[exec] [armeabi] Compile thumb : tiff_tkimg <= tif_predict.c [exec] /tmp/ccTUdnr3.s: Assembler messages: [exec] /tmp/ccTUdnr3.s: Error: unaligned opcodes detected in executable segment [exec] make: *** [obj/local/armeabi/objs/tiff_tkimg/libtiff/tif_predict.o] Error 1
This is in jni/tiff. So I deleted the tkimg and jni/tiff folders:
rm -rf jni/tkimg jni/tiff
Now, an "ant debug" succeeds for me. The result is in "androwish/bin/AndroWish-debug.apk
Great, thank you, Cristian !
This is a customisation for the application called "HIBIScan" for the company url "elmicron.de". You should replace those names by your own ones.
It is perhaps me, but I always try to get small packages with as less as possible included. So I deleted packages I know and I don't need in this project:
cd jni rm -rf 3dcanvas blt curl expect itk jpeg libxml2 nsf TclCurl tclral tcludp tclx tclxml\ tdom tiff Tix tkimg tktable tktreectrl vu xotcl zint cd jni/tcl-pkgs rm -rf tdbcmysql1.0.3 tdbcsqlite3-1.0.3 itcl4.0.3 sqlite3.8.8.3 tdbcodbc1.0.3\ thread2.7.2 tdbc1.0.3 tdbcpostgres1.0.3 cd androwish rm -rf tkchat cd assets rm -rf bin blt2.4 bwidget1.9.7 Canvas3d1.2.1 expect5.45.2 gridplus2.10 icons1.2 itcl4.0.3\ itk4.0.1 iwidgets4.1 nsf2.0.0 pdf4tcl08 ral0.11.2 ralutil0.11.2 sqlite3 TclCurl7.22.0\ tcllib1.16 tclsoap1.6.8 tclws2.3.8 tclx8.4.1 Tclxml3.2 tdbc1.0.3 tdbcsqlite3-1.0.3 tdom0.8\ thread2.7.2 tkimg1.4.3, tklib0.6, tksqlite0.5.11, tktable2.11 treectrl2.4.1 vu2.3
This results in an androwish size of 17MB, so 6 MB less than the full package.
For most Android phones, the target armeabi is sufficient. So the target x86 might be deleted: Remove "x86" in file jni/Application.mk to get:
APP_ABI := armeabi
This results in a final apk size of 10MB. My phone says that it takes 19.7 MB, while AndroWish takes 39.3MB.
Now, the script tree of the application is copied to assets/app and a main.tcl is there to be started:
cd assets mkdir app cd app cp <somewhere>/main.tcl . cp -r <somewhere>/* .
An "ant debug" results in a starkit-like apk file.
In "./AndroidManifest.xml", you may delete any permission, but:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
Application will directly terminate if not present.
In "./AndroidManifest.xml", you should change the package name to be different to androwish. Otherwise, the applications may not be installed together.
In "./AndroidManifest.xml"
package="de.elmicron.hibiscan"
where "de.elmicron.hibiscan" is my internet domain and the application name as last component. This should be adopted on request.
Add into "src/tk/tcl/wish/AndroWish.java" at the end of the include list:
import de.elmicron.hibiscan.R;
to avoid error:
[javac] /home/oehhar/android/androwish-hibiscan/src/tk/tcl/wish/AndroWish.java:1519: error: package R does not exist [javac] R.drawable.wish);
This error only happens after an
ant clean
Otherwise, the old class definition of "tk.tcl.wish.R" is still present in the gen source tree.
Add a derived class in "src/de/elmicron/hibiscan/HIBIScan.java". The file path is composed of "src" and the package name, dots replaced by "/". The file name is the class name, where I used the application name.
File contents:
package de.elmicron.hibiscan; import tk.tcl.wish.*; public class HIBIScan extends AndroWish { }
(chw by private email) Then, each usage in "<activity...>" of "tk.tcl.wish.AndroWish" in "AndroidManifest.xml" should be replaced by "de.elmicron.hibiscan.HibiScan". Here, this is done in the next step.
Remark: the usage of a derived class did not make any difference to me. I could stay with the class "tk.tcl.wish.AndroWish". Nevertheless, chw recommends it. Comments welcome...
Loose translation of E-Mail from chw:
The file "AndroidManifest.xml" for own applications should bette be structured similar to ".../hellotcltk/AndroidManifest.xml". The own application should not be started by the activity "AndroWishLauncher", but better directly, using the remaining intent filter:
<intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> </intent-filter>
So, within the "AndroidManifest.xml" file, there are the following changes:
and the following changes already in other sections:
The resulting file looks like that:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="de.elmicron.hibiscan" android:installLocation="auto" android:versionCode="600" android:versionName="6.0"> <application android:label="@string/app_name" android:icon="@drawable/androwish" android:allowBackup="true" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen" android:hardwareAccelerated="true"> <activity android:name="de.elmicron.hibiscan.HIBIScan" android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|keyboard|screenSize|mnc|mcc|locale|fontScale|uiMode" android:label="@string/app_name"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> </intent-filter> </activity> </application> <!-- Android 2.3.3 --> <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="9" android:targetSdkVersion="14" /> <!-- OpenGL ES 2.0 --> <uses-feature android:glEsVersion="0x00020000" /> <!-- USB support --> <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.usb.host" /> <!-- Disable screen compatibility modes --> <supports-screens android:smallScreens="true" android:normalScreens="true" android:largeScreens="true" android:xlargeScreens="true" /> <!-- Allow writing to external storage etc. --> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /> </manifest>
Change the AppName in res/values/strings.xml
Change the Androwish icons in res/drawable-*/androwish.png (Resolutions: 72x72, 48x48, 96x96, 144x144).
chw suggestion via E-Mail: 2 additional MB's may be economized by not including the font folder ".../jni/sdl2tk/library/fonts" as follows:
cd jni/sdl2tk mv library/fonts .
In this case, the buildin Droid* fonts are used as fallback which are included in Android firmware. They don't look so much less attractive...
This results in a package file size of 7.8MB
On Android 5, this requires Don Quixote release (2015-04) of Androwish to run. Otherwise, Androwish does not start on Android 5.
Create a release key by (replace "elmicron" by your own name):
cd ~/android keytool -genkey -v -keystore android_elmicron.keystore -alias android_elmicron -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000
You get promted to a keystore password and the key values. I only filled common name and Organisation. Then you get prompted to a key password.
This generates the file "~/android/android_elmicron.keystore".
Then add those lines to "~/android/androwish/ant.properties":
key.store=../android_elmicron.keystore key.alias=android_elmicron key.store.password=<mypw1> key.alias.password=<mypw2>
and do
ant release
The final apk is in "bin/AndroWish-release.apk".
Superlinux - 2015-06-03 15:37:32
This article is missing explaining how to add a Tcl package to the Androwish APK. For example by default tdbc::mysql is packaged by default.
Superlinux - 2015-06-03 15:37:33
This article is missing explaining how to add a Tcl package to the Androwish APK. For example by default tdbc::mysql is packaged by default.