I've seen many issue reports here in the forum which ends with "May you try to change this line of the source code and try it again?" - and of course, with no further response. And indeed, compiling the android port was a pain (no windows, manually hacking a few config files, two build systems). But this changed yesterday as 5.0-995 updated the android toolchain to android studio 2.2. One of the big improvements of 2.2 is the Improved C++ Support. Now we're able to build everything within a single IDE without any external tools.
So I want to encourage you to try it. What do you need?
- android studio >= 2.2
That's all.
On starting android studio, it will ask about downloading the SDK. Please select custom installation and also check following dependencies:
- NDK
- LLDB
- CMake
This will download ~2GB of data, this might take a while.
Within the "new project" tool, it will ask you if you want to import a project. Choose by "git":
- https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin.git
Next, open the gradle project directory:
- Source/Android
Once this project is opened successfully, you should be able to just hit compile, run or debug.
Have fun
So I want to encourage you to try it. What do you need?
- android studio >= 2.2
That's all.
On starting android studio, it will ask about downloading the SDK. Please select custom installation and also check following dependencies:
- NDK
- LLDB
- CMake
This will download ~2GB of data, this might take a while.
Within the "new project" tool, it will ask you if you want to import a project. Choose by "git":
- https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin.git
Next, open the gradle project directory:
- Source/Android
Once this project is opened successfully, you should be able to just hit compile, run or debug.
Have fun