Easy tutorial to package for Android

[Maxburg]

I'm new to programming and have installed Python and Kivy. No problem writing programs but when I try to package for Android the tutorials I find are targeted at developers and no use if you're not an experienced programmer (or at least not if you're an idiot like me.... I use Windows and have installet Virtualbox and downloaded Buildozer but cannot understand from the tutorials how to proceed from there. Is there anyone that can point me to or give me some 'for dummies' instructions on how to proceed? I don't even understand where to type the command lines stated in the tutorials..  Many thanks 

[Maxburg]

Finally I can access the Virtualbox Ubuntu interface and open the command tool. Do I need Buildozer or can I produce an APK directly?

[Maxburg]

Tried Buildozer but when i run 'buildozer android debug deploy run I get 'BUILD FAILED /home/kivy/.buildozer/android/platform/android-sdk-21/tools/ant/build.xml:483: SDK does not have any Build Tools installed. Any ideas what causes this?

On Saturday, October 4, 2014 1:26:11 PM UTC+2, Maxburg wrote:

[Maxburg]

Adding some screen dumps to clarify.

On Saturday, October 4, 2014 1:26:11 PM UTC+2, Maxburg wrote:

[qua non]

Hi Maxburg,

I recently did a presentation that has a tutorial for packaging using a VM and buildozer.

Tutorial- Virtual Machine(for packaging). Download Google Drive link

How to use the VM outlined here

Hope this helps you.

p.s

The slides are here https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Opz7xmIshsOFw-yDc3DJMWcJfo6QfJg7xWLLN4Wny6k

Just in case it's of interest.

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[Maxburg]

Hi, qua-non,

Many thanks for the documents, it is very helpful and kind of you. Kivy indeed looks very promising.

Any ideas why the SDK Build Tools may be missing?

On Saturday, October 4, 2014 1:26:11 PM UTC+2, Maxburg wrote:

[qua non]

if you try out the VM I linked to, it has the sdk build told included.

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[Maxburg]

Many thanks but I cannot unzip it. Says it the wrong size compared to original file. I have reinstalled everything and also updated the Python-for-Android but still gets this error when deploying;

# Android packages installation done.

# Check application requirements

# Check garden requirements

# Compile platform

# Distribution already compiled, pass.

# Build the application #4

# Package the application

# Command failed: /usr/bin/python2.7 build.py --name 'My Application' --version 1.2.0 --package org.test.myapp --private /home/kivy/apps/touchtracer/.buildozer/android/app --sdk 14 --minsdk 8 --orientation landscape debug

On Saturday, October 4, 2014 1:26:11 PM UTC+2, Maxburg wrote:

[Roger Erens]

Try the work-around described in this issue:

https://github.com/kivy/buildozer/issues/146

Op dinsdag 7 oktober 2014 22:58:36 UTC+2 schreef Maxburg:

[Maxburg]

Thank you but I can only find this:

This is what I did. Where did I go wrong or what do I need to do?  

   Download the disc image from http://kivy.org/#download

2.       Extract and remember the location of the extracted vdi file.

3.       Download the version of VirtualBox for your machine from the VirtualBox download area and install it.

4.       Start VirtualBox, click on “New” in the left top. Then select “linux” and “Ubuntu 32”.

5.       Under “Hard drive”, choose “Use an existing virtual hard drive file”. Search for your vdi file and select it.

6.       Go to the “Settings” for your virtual machine. In the “Display -> Video” section, increase video ram to 32mb or above. Enable 3d acceleration to improve the user experience.

7.       In VirtualBox terminal

git clone https://github.com/kivy/buildozer.git

cd buildozer

sudo python2.7 setup.py install

1.       In VirtualBox terminal my app folder

                   buildozer init

   In buildozer.spec

# (str) Application versioning (method 1)

# version.regex = __version__ = ['"](.*)['"]

# version.filename = %(source.dir)s/main.py

 

# (str) Application versioning (method 2)

version = 1.2.0

3.       And finally:

buildozer android debug deploy run

 

[Roger Erens]

So you created a directory somewhere containing the kivy app that you want to apk-ify (let's call it your project directory). Using the command line, you went into that directory and typed in the command 'buildozer debug deploy run', right? One of the effects of that command is to create hidden directories named .buildozer. One of those hidden directories got created in your project directory. But there's also one created in your $HOME directory. (~ is a shortcut for that).

Now there are a lot of directories created in that, some containing tools. One of the tools is by Google, start it up by entering this command:

~/.buildozer/android/platform/android-sdk-21/tools/android

Now you'll get a GUI as depicted in https://github.com/kivy/buildozer/issues/146. Follow the 4 remaining steps as outlined in the work-around.type0

When ready, re-type the buildozer command you typed in before.

Possibly another solution could be to uncomment the line

#android.sdk = 21

in your buildozer.spec file in your project directory, and replace the 21 by 20, before running your buildozer command.

Does that help you?

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[Maxburg]

Roger, I can't thank you enough - after a week of trying, finally I have the app running on the phone . thanks to your bug fix :)

[Roger Erens]

Op vrijdag 10 oktober 2014 20:04:37 UTC+2 schreef Maxburg:

Roger, I can't thank you enough - after a week of trying, finally I have the app running on the phone . thanks to your bug fix :)

The solutions weren't mine, I was just echoing kived and inclement from #irc!