ard Devlin
Subject: Re: Android SDK install without Android Studio (LC 9.6.5 App
Bundles)
I'm glad to hear that.
I don't think my instructions were easy to follow. AFAIK Klaus was the
only person able to benefit from them unaided. Others I had to walk through
a debugging process as
-livecode
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2021 4:19 AM
To: How to use LiveCode
Cc: panagiotis m
Subject: Re: Android SDK install without Android Studio (LC 9.6.5 App
Bundles)
Hello all,
Update: I did not realise that Ralph was talking about the "new" thing
(released on Feb 2020) that is th
I'm glad to hear that.
I don't think my instructions were easy to follow. AFAIK Klaus was the
only person able to benefit from them unaided. Others I had to walk through
a debugging process as they either couldn't follow the instructions or they
had a new problem which I hadn't yet encountered. T
Hello all,
Update: I did not realise that Ralph was talking about the "new" thing
(released on Feb 2020) that is the "command line tools". I thought he was
suggesting to use the "old" sdk tools, but instead of using the SDK Manager
GUI, which is now broken, to use the "sdkmanager" command line too
Hello all,
What Ralph suggests does work, and this is what we have advised a couple of
users to try, after they contacted us.
However, the problem with this approach is that it is quite possible it
will break in the future. Moreover, using the Terminal/cmd can be quite
advanced for several users.
One has to wonder why, if that is so simple, LC Ltd recommend that people
install the full Android Studio. That is the only advice they provide on
setting things up for Android development.
You only have to look at the Lesson to see the problems people have with
the existing procedure. There are
If you don't want all the weight of the full Studio install you can install
just the build tools (100mb vs. 1gb). Unfortunately the SDK manager GUI is
no longer included with the build tools. The old GUI only lets you install
APIs up to API 29. LC 9.6.5 requires API 30. This seems like Google's pus