Building for Android

Prerequisites

• Download and unpack SDL

• Download and unpack Android NDK

• Download and unpack Android SDK

• Note: code tested with NDK r9d and SDK 20140321

• Install ant

• After all of the above, setup the PATH environmental variables correctly, so that these commands work in your shell:

  • ndk-build
  • adb
  • ant

• Go to Android folder in sdl_simple, and copy, or make a symbolic link to SDL so that it looks like that:

sdl_simple/Android/jni/SDL

• Compile all C/C++ code, by running ndk-build. This should compile all native code and generate the binary version of the SDL2 and the ball code.

$ cd sdl_simple/Android
$ ndk-build

• Compile all the Java code by running ant debug. This will build the Java stub and link the app with SDL2 and the ball example. This generates the .apk

$ adb debug

• Install the .apk onto the device by connecting your device via USB and running:

$ adb debug install