Android

Android Build Instructions

Installing Android Studio

After installing, open up SDK manager and install the following:

Preparing the Android Project

Download the SDL source code (2.0.12) Extract it.

Copy the folder android_project to a seperate location. like D:\android\android_project.

Either create a Symlink from your SDL_Source code dir to app\jni\SDL or create the Folder SDL in app\jni\SDL and copy the content of the source code into it. (we can omit several folders...)

Note: The way, the android projects makefiles are organized, it's important that the folder is called SDL and not otherwise

CMake vs MakeFiles

It's possible to use either Makefiles or CMakeFiles.

For Cytopia, you can delete the Makefiles and adjust the CMakeFiles accordingly.

Other SDL libraries:

Download the source code for the other SDL libraries and extract them to app\jni Rename each folder and remove the version string from foldername. Like SDL2_ttf-2.0.15 to SDL2_ttf

Open app\jni\src\CMakeLists.txt and uncomment following lines as shown here:

# Compilation of companion libraries
add_subdirectory(SDL_image)
add_subdirectory(SDL_mixer)
add_subdirectory(SDL_ttf)

Source Code

Again, create a symlink or create a folder for the source code in app\jni\src\Cytopia and copy the source code here

Open app\jni\src\CMakeLists.txt and add your source files here: target_sources(main PRIVATE YourSourceHere.c)

Assets

Create a folder assets in *app\src\main*

This folder is for all the assets that'll be used by the game. Copy the content of data/resources to *app\src\main\assets\resources*

Loading the Project

In Android Studio, click on "import project (gradle, eclipse, ...)" and choose your project (e.g. D:\android\android_project)

Click on build