Prebuilt .apk with library supposed to go into data/app-lib

[Dennis Meier]

After long searching and figuring out how to add a prebuilt angrybirds .apk (for a prove of concept) to my Android build I have two questions:

1. I figured out how to add the libraries form within the .apk to the system (see answer with 5 upvotes in this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14687287/adding-prebuilt-apk-with-shared-libraries-to-aosp post). But the library doesn't get put into data/app-lib, where angrybirds searches for it. My .mk file:
   
   
   LOCAL_PATH := $(call my-dir)
   
   include $(CLEAR_VARS)
   
   LOCAL_MODULE := angrybirds_200
   
   LOCAL_REQUIRED_MODULES := libangrybirds
   
   LOCAL_CERTIFICATE := shared
   
   LOCAL_SRC_FILES := angrybirds_200.apk
   
   LOCAL_MODULE_CLASS := APPS
   
   LOCAL_MODULE_SUFFIX := $(COMMON_ANDROID_PACKAGE_SUFFIX)
   
   include $(BUILD_PREBUILT)
   
   
   include $(CLEAR_VARS)
   LOCAL_MODULE := libangrybirds
   LOCAL_SRC_FILES := libangrybirds.so # or wherever your so is
   LOCAL_MODULE_TAGS := optional
   LOCAL_MODULE_SUFFIX := .so
   LOCAL_MODULE_CLASS := SHARED_LIBRARIES
   include $(BUILD_PREBUILT)
   
   
   How can I make the build process put it there?
   
   
2. Is there really no *serious* documentation of the Android build system? A reference for variables in the .mk files for example (LOCAL_MODULE_CLASS, etc.). It is really annoying to dig everything up in forums and question-sites.

Thank you and best regards,
Dennis

[Magnus Bäck]

On Thursday, March 13, 2014 at 11:43 CET,

Dennis Meier <den...@gmail.com> wrote:

> After long searching and figuring out how to add a prebuilt
> angrybirds .apk (for a prove of concept) to my Android build
> I have two questions:

> 1. I figured out how to add the libraries form within the .apk to

> the system (see answer with 5 upvotes in this

> [1]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14687287/adding-prebuilt-apk-with-shared-libraries-to-aosp

> post). But the library doesn't get put into data/app-lib,
> where angrybirds searches for it.

Right, I suppose it goes into /system/lib right now.

> My .mk file:
> LOCAL_PATH := $(call my-dir)
> include $(CLEAR_VARS)
> LOCAL_MODULE := angrybirds_200
> LOCAL_REQUIRED_MODULES := libangrybirds
> LOCAL_CERTIFICATE := shared
> LOCAL_SRC_FILES := angrybirds_200.apk
> LOCAL_MODULE_CLASS := APPS
> LOCAL_MODULE_SUFFIX := $(COMMON_ANDROID_PACKAGE_SUFFIX)
> include $(BUILD_PREBUILT)
> include $(CLEAR_VARS)
> LOCAL_MODULE := libangrybirds
> LOCAL_SRC_FILES := libangrybirds.so # or wherever your so is
> LOCAL_MODULE_TAGS := optional
> LOCAL_MODULE_SUFFIX := .so
> LOCAL_MODULE_CLASS := SHARED_LIBRARIES
> include $(BUILD_PREBUILT)
> How can I make the build process put it there?

You'll want to set LOCAL_MODULE_PATH for the library.

LOCAL_MODULE_PATH := $(TARGET_OUT_DATA)/app-lib

> 2. Is there really no *serious* documentation of the Android build

> system? A reference for variables in the .mk files for example
> (LOCAL_MODULE_CLASS, etc.). It is really annoying to dig
> everything up in forums and question-sites.

Yes, that would be nice to have. I usually head straight for the source
code.

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Magnus Bäck | Software Engineer, Development Tools
magnu...@sonymobile.com | Sony Mobile Communications