Android development in Guix

Android development in Guix

[Ekaitz Zarraga]

Hi,

I'm trying to setup some Android development tooling in my Guix machine and I wonder if someone has done it before.

I tried, even if I don't like it, to run android studio using OpenJDK and Icedtea and I'm getting this error:

```
JDK Required: Cannot load a JDK class: com.sun.jdi.Field
Please ensure you run the IDE on JDK rather than JRE.
```

This is the perfect excuse to use something else that fits better with our philosophy but I'm not sure about what to do.

Does anyone have a solution to the error or an alternative that is more acceptable?

I'm open to any suggestion you have to make Android development: programming languages, tooling... I don't really have any precondition. I'm just looking for the most free-software friendly way to make simple and reasonable Android development that fits Guix.

Thanks!

Re: Android development in Guix

[Julien Lepiller]

Maybe try this: https://lepiller.eu/en/running-android-studio-on-guix.html

HTH :)

Le 5 mars 2021 13:51:21 GMT-05:00, Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech> a écrit :
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to setup some Android development tooling in my Guix machine
>and I wonder if someone has done it before.
>
>I tried, even if I don't like it, to run android studio using OpenJDK
>and Icedtea and I'm getting this error:
>
>```
>JDK Required: Cannot load a JDK class: com.sun.jdi.Field
>Please ensure you run the IDE on JDK rather than JRE.
>```
>
>This is the perfect excuse to use something else that fits better with
>our philosophy but I'm not sure about what to do.
>
>Does anyone have a solution to the error or an alternative that is more
>acceptable?
>
>I'm open to any suggestion you have to make Android development:
>programming languages, tooling... I don't really have any precondition.
>I'm just looking for the most free-software friendly way to make simple
>and reasonable Android development that fits Guix.
>
>Thanks!

Re: Android development in Guix

[Ekaitz Zarraga]

> This is terrible, but it is the only way I found to run it somewhat properly. Running it in an environment also isolates it from the system and prevents it from doing any damage to my home directory or my personal data. I hope this is useful to you!

LOL!

> HTH :)

It totally does.

Thanks a lot :)

Re: Android development in Guix

[Andreas Enge]

Am Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 01:55:38PM -0500 schrieb Julien Lepiller:
> Maybe try this: https://lepiller.eu/en/running-android-studio-on-guix.html

This is amazing, if I had known it last week it would have saved me the
time to debootstrap Debian on Guix... I will give it a try.

Personally I am developing an Android app on Debian this way:
   http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/paridroid/index.html
In an extremely old-fashioned way with Ant and the command line, but
nevertheless this allows me to publish it on Fdroid. Interestingly, by
using an old SDK and downloading everything with wget, there is no need
to accept any license, unlike for downloads from inside Android Studio.
And by using an oldish NDK, my C libraries are compiled with gcc instead
of clang.

The reason I am working on Debian is that I was too lazy to think about
the patchelf business; supposedly, your container approach would also
solve this problem.

Andreas

Re: Android development in Guix

[Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski]

Wow cool ! 

Le 5 mars 2021 19:55:38 GMT+01:00, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> a écrit :
>Maybe try this: https://lepiller.eu/en/running-android-studio-on-guix.html
>
>HTH :)
>
>Le 5 mars 2021 13:51:21 GMT-05:00, Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech> a écrit :
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm trying to setup some Android development tooling in my Guix machine
>>and I wonder if someone has done it before.
>>
>>I tried, even if I don't like it, to run android studio using OpenJDK
>>and Icedtea and I'm getting this error:
>>
>>```
>>JDK Required: Cannot load a JDK class: com.sun.jdi.Field
>>Please ensure you run the IDE on JDK rather than JRE.
>>```
>>
>>This is the perfect excuse to use something else that fits better with
>>our philosophy but I'm not sure about what to do.
>>
>>Does anyone have a solution to the error or an alternative that is more
>>acceptable?
>>
>>I'm open to any suggestion you have to make Android development:
>>programming languages, tooling... I don't really have any precondition.
>>I'm just looking for the most free-software friendly way to make simple
>>and reasonable Android development that fits Guix.
>>
>>Thanks!

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