Unable to import APK through Android Studio

[hsdk123]

I've just managed to get up to apk packaging completing, and now trying to debug, I've initially tried importing the APK through Android Studio (option: Profile or debug APK), but I'm getting errors when selecting the cmake built file:

APK Import
Unable to find file
'Users/hkim809/ApkProjects/MyApplication/small/classes.dex'

Any ideas?

[mosra]

I took most of the internals from fips, and it seems mirroring this commit would make things work again: floooh/fips@63fdb7a

Unfortunately right now I'm unable to set up Android build locally (the SSD on this mac mini is too small, heh), so you'd either have to try to tackle this yourself or wait until I have a real computer again (in three weeks, hopefully).

[hsdk123]

Hmm, looks as if those lines are just doing some symbol replacement to get things working 'again'. (implying something was up before and that might just be a bug fix on top)

I've looked around the repo, and it seems there's some core steps run to build the dex:
#11 (comment)

Seems like a src directory is created then somehow a /R.java is pulled in, built, and then a dex created afterwards through a separate command.

I think I can wait 3 weeks, so I might go back to try tackling the iOS build and emscripten build first. Will update though if I dabble into this again, but when that real computer comes in, let me know!

[mosra]

@hsdk123 were you able to make any progress on this? I'm coming back to this with absolutely no prior knowledge of what the APK should or should not have, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Or did the extra commits in #10 solve this in any way?

[hsdk123]

Actually not really, Android Studio and Gradle were a pain and I couldn't even get things to build.... I did however spend about a week though looking through what should be happening, here are a couple of links I jotted down along the way:

• Android Studio can't find dex. Reference implementation:
  https://github.com/floooh/fips/blob/master/tools/android-create-apk.py#L142

• Android apk stucture:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_application_package

• Android manifest:
  https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/manifest-intro.html

• Android appt doesn't allow non-ascii filenames to be packaged:
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10543713/mono-for-android-unicode-assets-file-names-cant-be-packaged
  https://elinux.org/Android_aapt

• Check app2 at some point (might fix non-ascii filename problem)
  https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/aapt2

• Android apk building through cmake
  https://github.com/Discordia/android-cmake/blob/master/android.apk.cmake
  https://github.com/Discordia/android-cmake-example/tree/master/android
  https://github.com/PixelLightFoundation/pixellight/blob/master/cmake/Android/Apk.cmake
  https://github.com/hunter-packages/android-apk/blob/master/AndroidApk.cmake
  https://github.com/floooh/fips/blob/master/tools/android-create-apk.py

[mosra]

Thanks a lot for the links. I can imagine the pain behind, haha :)