[HaO] 2015-03-24: 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 [http://www.androwish.org/index.html/wiki?name=Building+AndroWish] 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. **Build Androwish** ***Try on Windows*** Windows build stopped with ndk-build with a "command line to long" error. I tried cmd.exe and cygwin shell, same result. ***Try on CentOS 6*** Failed for me due to a to old clib. ***OpenSuSE 13.2 64 bit*** I installed VirtualBox on my Windows 8.1 and OpenSuSE 13.2 64 bit with 100GB HarDisk and 4GB Ram. * Added series: java development * Added packages: java-1_7_0-openjdk-devel, xerces-j2-xml-apis Activate Java 7 (e.g. 1.7): ======none 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: ======none cd ~ mkdir android cd android mkdir download ====== Downloaded in ~/android/download: * android-sdk_r24.1.2-linux.tgz * android-ndk-r10d-linux-x86_64.bin * androwish-e2aee3ea2ea718e7.tar.gz (Pi Day Release) Unpack and install, androwish in folder "androwish" for easier access ======none cd ~/android tar xvzf download/android-sdk_r24.1.2-linux.tgz chmod +x download/android-ndk-r10d-linux-x86_64.bin download/android-ndk-r10d-linux-x86_64.bin tar xvzf download/androwish-e2aee3ea2ea718e7.tar.gz mv androwish-e2aee3ea2ea718e7 androwish ====== Open Android SDK manager: ======none ~/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": ======none export PATH=$PATH:~/android/android-sdk-linux/tools:~/android/android-ndk-r10d cd androwish android update project -p . --target 1 ====== On "ant debug", I had the following build error I could not solve: ======none [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: ======none 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 ! **Customizing Androwish** ***Delete not required packages*** 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: ======none 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. ***Include own script*** Now, the script tree of the application is copied to assets/app and a main.tcl is there to be started: ======none cd assets mkdir app cp /main.tcl . ====== An "ant debug" results in a starkit-like apk file. ***Remove launcher activity*** In "./AndroidManifest.xml", delete all intent filter from this (keep the first, app will not show without): ======none ... ====== Delete all activities "AndroWishScript0" to "AndroWishScript3": ======none ====== Application will directly terminate if not present. ***Change package name*** In "./AndroidManifest.xml", you should change the package name to be different to androwish. Otherwise, the applications may not be installed together. This is not terminated jet and any help appreciated. So far: In "./AndroidManifest.xml" ======none 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. The derived class definition is in file "src/tk/tcl/wish/HIBIScan.java" and contains: ======none import tk.tcl.wish.AndroWish; public class HIBIScan extends AndroWish {} ====== This must be referenced somewhere in the AndrowishManifest.xml but did not find out jet where. More tomorrow... ***Resources*** Change the AppName in res/values/strings.xml Change the Androwish icons in res/drawable-*/androwish.png (Resolutions: 72x72, 48x48, 96x96, 144x144).