Day 1 Project Setup

Setup Android

After many trials (Juno/NVIDIA/Intellij/...) it ends up that the easiest way to debug a NDK application is to use the 'standard' tools preconised by Google.

Download/Install the ADT Bundle for Mac

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Download/Install the NDK for Mac

http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html

I personnaly installed it in Applications/Android/ so I end up with something like this :

Configure Eclipse

You need to tell Eclipse where you NDK is located. Go to ADT/Preferences/Android/NDK and indicate the NDK location (in my case Application/Android/android-ndk-r8d)

Prepare the android Emulator.

We are going to make use of OpenGL so we need the emulator to be as fast as possible. Here are the steps needed to have a useable emulator.

Install the Intel Virtualization Tool

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/installation-instructions-for-intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager-mac-os-x

The installation procedure is very well explained so just follows the instructions ;-)

Create a "good" AVD

• with an x86 image
• with Host GPU

For this we need to launch the Android SDK Manager (Directly from the ADT Menus(Window/Android SDK Manager)) or from the finder /sdk/tools/android. and install the X86 image corresponding to your SDK.

and then we need to create the AVD itself.For this we need to launch the Android Virtual Device Manager (Directly from the ADT Menus(Window/Android Virtual Device Manager)) or from the finder /sdk/tools/android. and then choose from menus Tools/Manage AVDs.

There are 2 points to care about :

• Choose an X86 image
• Check the Use Host GPU Option

Note for later (Don't worry if you don't understand everything)

when we will create a JNI libray. We need to build an X86 version of the library also. This is very easy to do. You just need to add the x86 target in the APP_ABI variable (in Application.mk)

Application.mk

APP_ABI := armeabi armeabi-v7a x86
APP_PLATFORM := android-4

Setup IOS/OSX

Concerning IOS and OSX, you just have to download the latest XCode from the AppStore.