Skia's Android Toolchain

[Derek Sollenberger]

I wanted to give everyone working on Android a heads up that we plan to move the toolchain out of our svn repository and into google cloud storage.  This will reduce the size of our checkouts (especially on git) and give us more flexibility going forward.  However, the downside is that it will require developers to have 'gsutil' in their path.  To pre-emptly prepare yourself for the change you can download it here  or you can also often get it by running 'sudo apt-get install gsutil'.

After the change goes in the android_make script will check that it is in your path so you shouldn't get any mysterious breakages.  The change does mean that the next time a new toolchain is release or you delete your android/toolchain directory that the script will grab the necessary version from cloud storage.

~ Derek

[Derek Sollenberger]

The change is in as of https://code.google.com/p/skia/source/detail?r=8741.  If you already had a checkout you shouldn't notice anything different until you either create a new checkout or we release a new toolchain.  At that time you'll get an error if you haven't installed gsutil.  I've updated the prequisite documentation to include instructions for doing so.

https://sites.google.com/site/skiadocs/user-documentation/quick-start-guides/android