Which Android does your phone have? 12+? Not running with no reason sounds
a lot like the problem that was reported in discord caused by the missing
<intent-filter> section.

On Tue, 26 Dec 2023 at 13:42, James Paige <b...@hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:

> Arg, I am so close. I can build the debug apk now with no errors, and it
> seems okay, but when I try to install it on my phone it won't run (and
> gives me no hint as to why)
>
> Maybe something is failing, but the build keeps going instead of stopping.
> I'll figure it out eventually.
>
> > Great... maybe. Is this a good time to bring up emscripten nightly
> builds? :)
>
> I do think I would enjoy that. it would be nice to write a dockerfile that
> doesn't rely on anything dreadfully out-of-date :D
>
> Enough for today though, I need a break
>
> On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 7:02 PM Ralph Versteegen <teeem...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Great... maybe. Is this a good time to bring up emscripten nightly
>> builds? :)
>>
>> "Source option 5" means -source 1.5 meaning JDK 1.5 which is Java 5. My
>> distro, Slackware, doesn't have an official JDK package (rather telling,
>> since it includes toolchains for every other popular language) but there's
>> a high profile 3rd-party one, openjdk-8u392.
>>
>> At https://developer.android.com/tools/releases/sdk-tools I found the
>> notice:
>> "...we are discontinuing an old way of updating artifacts for the SDK
>> manager. ...we will no longer publish updates with this older XML format.
>> Users of older versions of Android Studio, the old command-line SDK
>> Manager, or the old SDK Manager UI will not receive updates to the SDK
>> components via the SDK Manager"
>> Also, in the notes for "SDK Tools, Revision 25.3.0 *(March 2017)", *it
>> says that the "android" commandline tool and ant scripts have been removed.
>> In "SDK Tools, Revision 26.0.0 *(March 2017)" *it says* "*tools/android
>> now attempts to reproduce the functionality of android in tools prior to
>> version 25.3.0 by invoking the new tools"
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 26 Dec 2023 at 11:31, James Paige <b...@hamsterrepublic.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have no idea how I managed to get platform version 31 installed in my
>>> 2012 Android SDK *shrug*
>>> I also ran into a "Source option 5 is no longer supported." openjdk8 was
>>> the last java to support whatever "option 5" means. And Debian 9 was the
>>> last debian to support openjdk8
>>>
>>> After a lot of messing around, I think I finally got the android nightly
>>> building in a docker image (still using my cargo-cult artifact copy of the
>>> android SDK)
>>>
>>> I'll push the Dockerfile for it. I ended up using Debian 11, but
>>> installing an Amazon "corretto" backport of OpenJDK-8 and I /think/ it all
>>> works. I managed to produce a debug apk a few minutes ago. If I can confirm
>>> it actually installs and runs on my phone I'm going to update the nightly
>>> build system to do it this way.
>>>
>>> > And I notice that block was modified in 4701548e0 ("SDL: switched
>>> build system from Ant to Gradle") to make "android" optional. It's also
>>> used in build/envsetup.sh but I don't remember ever running that.
>>>
>>> Aha, thanks! I'll check that out too.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 4:56 PM Ralph Versteegen <teeem...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, you don't want the SDK that I have, because it no longer works!
>>>> Running "android" (a binary from 2018) I get Android SDK Manager revision
>>>> 25.2.5 which shows the most recent "SDK Platform" available for install
>>>> being one for Android API 29 (Android 10). Which is the one I have
>>>> installed. I had been meaning to install a newer SDK but had no idea that
>>>> the SDK manager itself was no longer functional.
>>>>
>>>> Since you have targetSdkVersion set to 30, my SDK no longer works (it
>>>> gets all the way through compiling and linking but fails in the final steps
>>>> of packaging the .apk). I managed to create an .apk only by decreasing the
>>>> target to 29 and changing my PATH to point to an older javac (javac from
>>>> jdk-17.0.1 threw an error "Source option 5 is no longer supported. Use 7 or
>>>> later." (about its "-source 1.5" argument), while javac 1.8.0 from
>>>> openjdk-8u392 only printed a deprecation warning. Seems like Java has
>>>> suffered a Perl 5/6-style fork)
>>>>
>>>> BTW when I try to edit  android:targetSdkVersion="30" in
>>>> project/AndroidManifest[Template].xml it seems to have no effect. I finally
>>>> figured out I have to edit project/project.properties too. That file claims
>>>> to be autogenerated but is it? I couldn't figure out how to do so.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 26 Dec 2023 at 06:11, James Paige via Ohrrpgce <
>>>> ohrrpgce@lists.motherhamster.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> TMC, Question! What version of the Android SDK do you have installed?
>>>>>
>>>>> I think my version is probably from around 2012, and it is so old I
>>>>> don't even know how to install it again (which makes it rough to create a
>>>>> Docker image for it)
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried with the latest SDK, but it doesn't even have the "android"
>>>>> binary anymore, it has "sdkmanager" instead with different command line
>>>>> arguments, but our dusty old fork of sdl-android relies on "android"
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm hoping to find the oldest sdk that still works as a quick-fix, but
>>>>> googling for "when did android SDK stop having android" doesn't work very
>>>>> well :D
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 9:10 PM James Paige <b...@hamsterrepublic.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh, I am pretty sure I know what is wrong. The nightly build vm for
>>>>>> android is still Debian 9. It has scons version 2.3, which is still 
>>>>>> python
>>>>>> 2.7 based. The latest scons on my Debian 11 box is 4.0
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 9:13 PM James Paige <b...@hamsterrepublic.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 7:40 PM Ralph Versteegen via Ohrrpgce <
>>>>>>> ohrrpgce@lists.motherhamster.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That's strange... works on my machine. The error is:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> jni/../jni/application/ohrrpgce/tmp//filelayer.cpp:7:24: fatal
>>>>>>>> error: fb/fb_stub.h: No such file or directory
>>>>>>>>  #include "fb/fb_stub.h"
>>>>>>>>                         ^
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And the reason for the error is that copy_source_actions() in
>>>>>>>> ohrbuild.py isn't copying fb/fb_stub.h to android/tmp/ apparently 
>>>>>>>> because
>>>>>>>> node.get_implicit_deps(), which is meant to run a sconscript builtin 
>>>>>>>> source
>>>>>>>> scanner to return the list of headers isn't working. Try uncommenting 
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> two lines immediately below that:
>>>>>>>>         def scstr(x): return ",".join(str(y) for y in x)
>>>>>>>>         print("node", str(node), "sources", scstr(node.sources),
>>>>>>>> "headers", scstr(headers))
>>>>>>>> It should print:
>>>>>>>> node filelayer.cpp sources  headers
>>>>>>>> errorlog.h,fb/fb_stub.h,filelayer.hpp,lumpfile.h,mutex.hpp,config.h,miscc.h,fb/fb_array.h,fb/fb_config.h,fb/fb_device.h,fb/fb_error.h,fb/fb_file.h,fb/fb_string.h,fb/fb_thread.h,os.h,fb/fb_blackbox_config.h
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What it actually prints on the nightly build machine is:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> node filelayer.cpp sources  headers
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I haven't spotted why yet.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> As for .aab support... I had a look at upstream commandergenius.
>>>>>>>> They seem to use gradle to create the .aab file, plus have a script for
>>>>>>>> signing it. Gradle isn't used for just that. The addition of all the 
>>>>>>>> gradle
>>>>>>>> stuff is new since we forked. I don't know whether you want to copy or
>>>>>>>> reuse the upstream work, requiring gradle, or completely reimplement
>>>>>>>> support some other way.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Trying to merge our fork with upstream commandergenius with "git
>>>>>>>> merge" isn't going to work ("Your branch and 'origin/sdl_android' have
>>>>>>>> diverged, and have 79 and 1915 different commits each, respectively" 
>>>>>>>> which
>>>>>>>> doesn't begin to describe the enormous patches and conflicts... I 
>>>>>>>> tried git
>>>>>>>> merge after which on the first conflict "git status" outputs 17972 
>>>>>>>> lines
>>>>>>>> and "git diff" 10588 lines of conflicts!). Manually merging it by
>>>>>>>> cherry-picking or applying (some of) our commits on top of upstream 
>>>>>>>> might
>>>>>>>> be practical but is still tons of work. Cherry-picking their commits 
>>>>>>>> which
>>>>>>>> add .aab support is clearly far less work but isn't easy either, 
>>>>>>>> because on
>>>>>>>> top of the .aab signing commits (I couldn't easily figure out which 
>>>>>>>> commits
>>>>>>>> are needed but "git log --grep bundle" is a good start) you'd also 
>>>>>>>> need all
>>>>>>>> the ones for gradle support.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> First I'll dig around and see if there is a way to just change the
>>>>>>> existing scripts to support aab format, which might be possible, I don't
>>>>>>> know yet.
>>>>>>> If not, I think trying to cherry-pick our commits on top of upstream
>>>>>>> sounds like the least work, but I'll cross that bridge only if I don't 
>>>>>>> find
>>>>>>> any easier shortcuts.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'll keep you posted if I find anything.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 at 01:49, James Paige via Ohrrpgce <
>>>>>>>> ohrrpgce@lists.motherhamster.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I forgot to mention, the android builds have been broken for a
>>>>>>>>> while (Since October 27)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I haven't had time to narrow it down to the exact revision yet,
>>>>>>>>> but I'll work on it when I have time.
>>>>>>>>> I also want to work on the Android 12 fix, (I know what to do) and
>>>>>>>>> the .aab format (Don't know what to do yet, but I'll figure it out
>>>>>>>>> eventually)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>> James
>>>>>>>>>
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