Chirayu Desai: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hey Chirayu, >> >> Chirayu Desai:
>>>> package new parts of the Android upstream source, including the NDK, >>>> target platforms, emulators, Android Studio, etc. >>> This would involve more repositories being pulled under android-tools/ >>> It would be made easier by the fact that the NDK is less coupled with >>> the build system than other tools, and there is also a repo manifest >>> to build only the NDK - which doesn't fetch too many repos, especially >>> if you don't count the prebuilt toolchains [3] >> >> Since Debian always builds everything from source, the prebuilts will >> count too. Unfortunately, those can be harder... >> > Right. > So that means even the prebuilt toolchains would have to be built from > their android fork? > That would be quite a bit of work. > Doable, but a lot to compile. Building everything from source is the end goal, but it is a large task, so it could make sense to provide some packages that download Android SDK/NDK binaries in an easy, automatic way (like the flash packages, some font packages, etc). But everything in the main Debian repositories must be built entirely from source. >>>> package and improve related tools, like apktool, androguard, fdroidserver, >>>> drozer, etc. >>> Doable, probably much easier as they would likely be independent tools >>> then be something so tightly coupled as android. >>> >>> Overall, I view this as a good challenge for me, given this is a part >>> of android I haven't worked too much with before. And that too for >>> debian, which is something I've only used. >>> It would be a great experience for me to be able to work with the >>> debian project, and contribute with the help of the android knowledge >>> I've gained over the years. >>> >>> I'll upload a draft proposal to Google's site if the above looks okay >>> to you guys. >> >> Yes, sounds good, please upload a proposal! >> > I'll try to get it done by tonight, or tomorrow. > I have exams in college right now, so that is what I was busy with for > most of the day. > i do have two holidays coming up before the deadline though so I'll be > able to dedicate most of my time to this, and study things in detail > to write a proper proposal Ok, looking forward to it! .hc
