[Commotion-dev] Commotion Android build/install/testing

[Doug Reith]

Thanks for the quick response and great work, Hans! I'll get more familiar
with Android development and share my experiences testing this out.

*Douglas G Reith*
Developer
313.437.1244 (office)
theworkdept.com


On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Hans of Guardian <hans at guardianproject.info
> wrote:

>
> On Oct 10, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Doug Reith wrote:
>
> Hello Commotion,
>
> I was experimenting with building and installing the Commotion Android
> application from the instructions in the readme<https://code.commotionwireless.net/projects/commotion-android/repository/revisions/master/entry/README>.
> I hit a few obstacles and had a few questions:
>
> 1. Initially the make build for the Android app was failing. I eventually
> realized that the Makefile conditionally assigns 9 as the Android SDK
> platform in line 11: SDK_PLATFORM_LEVEL ?= 9. From what I read 9 is
> obsolete. The build ran sucessfully with platform level 16. Which SDK API
> Level should I be using?
>
>
> Either should be fine.  Originally Android build systems seemed to work
> best if you put the oldest supported version in that field.  Now they
> seemed to have changed their minds and say you should put the newest
> supported version.  If you want to compiled for android-9, you just have to
> install the android-9 stuff in the android updater.
>
> 2. I had to explore quite a bit of the Android Developers documentation to
> fill in the gaps of the Readme instructions. Including setting up device
> detecting on Ubuntu<http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html#setting-up>.
> Are there other Commotion Android resources (besides the readme) that
> provide instructions on testing or troubleshooting?
>
>
> The README assumes that you have a fully working Android development
> setup.  Otherwise we'd have to maintain a duplicate set of instructions as
> Google's.
>
> 3. After installing the app on two HTC mobile devices, we tested them and
> they are either crashing or not fully functional. What is the best way for
> me to debug this? Should I run the app with adb logcat and share my
> findings on this commotion-dev? Is the commotion-android listserv not in
> use?
>
>
> Post here on commotion-dev.  I'm the main author of the Commotion
> MeshTether, and that's the first I've heard of the commotion-android list :)
>
> The crashes should give you a stacktrace in logcat, that's a good place to
> start.  Post anything here that you want to discuss.
>
> Right now the known working devices are HTC running Android 2.x some
> random others.  It works on my Motorola Droid running CyanogenMod, and I
> can sometimes get it working on my Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0 running 2.3.3.
>  Will is currently working on 4.x support.
>
> .hc
>
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