APK Emulation
BlitzMax Forums/BlitzMax NG/APK Emulation
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| Hi all, I've just installed BMX-NG and followed this guide to create an Android application. I couldn't find the Android SDK to download alone, so installed Android Studio and added several Android versions in SDK manager before compiled Bruceys Firepaint. I now have an APK build in BlitzmaxNG. I don't really want to install it on my phone just yet and I know there is an Emulator provided with the SDK but how do you use it? The documentation for Android Studio says to go into Tools | Android | AVD Manager, but this presumes you have already created a project within the Studio. Do I have to do that as well? Maybe I should just find an image for Virtualbox... Any suggestions? |
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| sorry to disappoint you Scaremonger but you can't do any emulation with NG apps because it's not native build. Check my older threads even Brucey already confirmed this. I also did SDK emulator and AVD stuff and it does not work as I recall or maybe someone should post a screenshot. Just load it up straight to your phone :-) |
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| Thanks @RustyKristi, at least I can stop trying to get it working now. :) Where is an old phone when you need one... Cheers, |
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| no prob. The only advantage I could see is hitting that build button on maxide and you got your apk instantly without any gradle or commandline stuff. ;-) |
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| @ Rusty You know that BMX NG supports a "post.bmk" and "pre.bmk" (in the folder of the application) and BMK is then running it before (pre.bmk) and after (post.bmk) compilation/linking/.. ? You might play with it - and even automate the process installing it on your device: post.bmk
bmk.Sys("adb install -r " .. bmk.Quote(inFile))
(untested, but the command is "adb install -r filename.apk")) You should also be able to have it run in a VM (android x86 - so you need to build for "android - x86" instead of ARM). bye Ron |
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| Thanks Derron. Well yeah, I think that should work too but just tried it and I get a compile error rebuilding the modules.. [SDL] fatal error: iconv.h: No such file or directory not sure if NG/BRL modules are tested on all architectures for android, so far I see it only builds with arm. |
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| Raise an issue so Brucey can tackle it "next year". bye Ron |
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| I'm getting the same issue with SDL.c when compiling x86. ARMeab5 and 7 both compile without a problem. I've raised this as an issue on github.
[ 28%] Compiling:SDL.c
In file included from E:/BMX-NG/mod/sdl.mod/sdl.mod/SDL/include/SDL_main.h:25:0,
from E:/BMX-NG/mod/sdl.mod/sdl.mod/SDL/include/SDL.h:32,
from E:/BMX-NG/mod/sdl.mod/sdl.mod/SDL/src/SDL.c:29:
E:/BMX-NG/mod/sdl.mod/sdl.mod/SDL/include/SDL_stdinc.h:87:20: fatal error: iconv.h: No such file or directory
# include <iconv.h>
^
compilation terminated.
Build Error: failed to compile E:/BMX-NG/mod/sdl.mod/sdl.mod/SDL/src/SDL.c
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| nice |
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