[arch-general] Android support in Linux Arch

[Karol Babioch]

Hi,

Am 17.04.2014 00:38, schrieb Anatol Pomozov:
> Are there people with Android development background? What exactly do
> you miss in Arch? 

The problem I face with the Android situation in Arch is that currently
there seems to be no "clean" (TM) way to install the SDK and related
stuff. The android-sdk package from AUR is fine and dandy, but one
usually also needs to install a whole bunch of API specific packages
through the "android" tool from the SDK.

- This doesn't work for normal users, e.g. you can update the packages
using Eclipse, but you need to start "/opt/android-sdk/tools/android" as
root

- Installing any sort of package through the "installer" mentioned above
isn't compatible with the whole idea of package management, because the
package manager isn't aware of these files. I ran into conflicts before,
which I had to resolve by temporarily removing some components.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong here, but at least this is what I've
experienced throughout the last couple of months. Unfortunately I don't
see a good way how this can be improved, as I like the idea of
installing only API components that I really need and get instant (!)
updates for them directly from the upstream project.

Anyone familiar with the situation on other distributions? How do they
handle all of this?

Best regards,
Karol Babioch

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