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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: getting in early... the android apk plan?getting in early... the android apk plan?
From: Jonathan Gordon <jdgordy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:20:05 +1000 Hi all, Firstly, yes I'm jumping the gun a bit here, but because GSoC is pretty much finished and the android port seems to be almost on par with other touchscreen targets I thought we better have this discussion. The test builds Thomas has been building are built with a single librockbox.so which is for a single screen size. This file is about 800kb and is very hard to update (impossible even?) without rebuilding the whole apk. If we continue with this method then we either need to setup an apk for each lcd size (yuck) or we build a separate librockbox.so for each lcd size and have only the needed one loaded (but all will be in the apk). This of course means a couple of MB which isn't much but most people have very tight mobile data allowances. The other problem with this is when it comes time to do an update the whole thing needs to be downloaded again. Do we want android to be the only target which cant run the svn builds and users are forced to only use the builds we push to the market (or make available on the site). The other option is not building the librockbox.so into the apk at all but instead download it on first run, or try to load rockbox.zip from the sdcard. This allows the user to use whichever build they want, it means it can be integrated into the build system more simply, and we only ever need to update the .apk when the java changes (or we use that to try to force users onto the new releases). http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/11525 does this in a mostly working way. It asks if you want to download (which isnt implemented yet) or update if rockbox.zip is found in /sdcard/rockbox on first run (I want to make it check on every resume of the activity for a new rockbox.zip but I'm not having any luck restarting the service/rockbox thread). (The reason I wanted to talk about this before anything is officially released is that my patch changes paths and from a users POV having rockbox waste 10MB because the old paths don't get cleaned up is not very nice). Jonathan Received on 2010-08-11 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |