how to add support files to apk?

[Bill Eaton]

I can't find any information on the structure of apk files or AndroidManifest.xml. I want to add some files to my apk (a font and a sqlite3 db). Is there a guide to doing this that I've missed?

[Ben Rousch]

Put your font at or below the level of your main.py and refer to it with a relative path (like you would an image). Sqlite can be used the same way, or look at user_data_dir at the bottom of http://kivy.org/docs/api-kivy.app.html

On Apr 7, 2014 12:48 AM, "Bill Eaton" <wpea...@gmail.com> wrote:

I can't find any information on the structure of apk files or AndroidManifest.xml. I want to add some files to my apk (a font and a sqlite3 db). Is there a guide to doing this that I've missed?

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[Bill Eaton]

> Put your font at or below the level of your main.py and refer to it with a relative path (like you would an image)...

I think I've done that. Should I be able to see the file inside the apk somewhere? Or do I add the support files manually?

[Ben Rousch]

You also need to add ttf to line 16 in your buildozer.spec

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[Bill Eaton]

> ... You also need to add ttf to line 16 in your buildozer.spec ....

Well, I wasn't using buildozer. But I gave it a try anyway. I'm using the Test Drive vm. I changed line 16 to add ttf and db. And I think I added the correct SDK NDK and p4a directories. 

But every time I try to run 

buildozer android update

I get the following messages

# Check configuration tokens
# Ensure build layout
# Check configuration tokens
# Preparing build
# Check requirements for android
# Install platform
# Command failed: git clean -dxf

The thing is, if I switch to the p4a directory (/home/kivy/android/python-for-android in the VM) I can successfully run git clean -dxf all day long. 

[Bill Eaton]

If I use --verbose switch for buildozer, it seems to be ignoring the path I supplied in buildozer.spec for py4a:

# Install platform
# Run 'git clean -dxf'
# Cwd /home/kivy/Dropbox/freebird/python_ebird_wrapper/.buildozer/android/platform/python-for-android
fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home/kivy/Dropbox)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).

# Command failed: git clean -dxf

and here is the lines from buildozer.spec:

# (str) python-for-android git clone directory (if empty,it will be automatically cloned from github)
android.p4a_dir = /home/kivy/android/python-for-android

[Ben Rousch]

Are those mounted as VM shared folders? There can be permissions issues if some of the code or resources are on a share, so move it all into the VM.

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[Bill Eaton]

Ben,

I've made some more progress but it's a real struggle to get everything in the VM to behave. Per your suggestion, I moved all of my source and dependent files to a directory local to the VM.

Then I had errors related to virtualenv, so I did

sudo pip  install --upgrade virtualenv

Now I'm getting

Unable to locate package arm-linux-androideabi-gcc

I'm going to poke around some more and see if I can figure it out. One more curious detail from Buildozer messages is related to NDK:

NDK located at /home/kivy/android/android-ndk-r8c
NDK version is r9c

Hopefully, r9c is not a problem. I didn't set this and didn't do anything with installing ndk.

[Ben Rousch]

Did you update the components as specified in the readme on the desktop?

[Bill Eaton]

> Did you update the components as specified in the readme on the desktop?

Yes. Everything is updated. Today I'm running the VM from a different machine. I have a newer version of buildozer. Now the error message says

...
...
Entering in ARM enviromnent
Unable to find compiler (arm-linux-androideabi-gcc) !!
1. Ensure that SDK/NDK paths are correct
2. Ensure that you've the Android API 14 SDK Platform (via android tool)
# Command failed: ./distribute.sh -m "openssl kivy" -d "freebird"

So naturally, I try the command myself from Terminal

~/android/python-for-android/./distribute.sh -m "openssl kivy" -d "freebird"

And it works! Maybe the command fails because it's saying a distribution already exits and you need to hit enter to wipe it out or Ctl+C to quit and it hangs there.

Maybe if I continue on to run ./build.py manually, I can get an APK, but then I'm back where I started: I don't know how to get dependent files (TTF and DB) into my apk.