Create native android apk via command line only (makefile)

Issue

Goal

Creating a native android apk:

• via vim & Makefile only
• no use of gradle, ant, maven, android.mk and all that other stuff

Problem

• I already created a simple non-native android apk via command line that works well & plays on my Samsung S7.
• When I try loadLibrary("hello") a shared object then the logcat tells me it cannot find it.
• The .so file is definitely added via aapt add hellojni.apk ./lib/arm64/libhello.so

Error report

08-25 16:56:30.959 15637 15637 W ResourcesManager: getTopLevelResources: /data/app/com.example.hellojni-1/base.apk / 4.0 running in com.example.hellojni rsrc of package com.example.hellojni
08-25 16:56:30.969 15637 15637 W System  : ClassLoader referenced unknown path: /data/app/com.example.hellojni-1/lib/arm64
08-25 16:56:30.969 15637 15637 W amo     : Trying to load shared library!
08-25 16:56:30.969 15637 15637 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
08-25 16:56:30.969 15637 15637 E AndroidRuntime: Process: com.example.hellojni, PID: 15637
08-25 16:56:30.969 15637 15637 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: dalvik.system.PathClassLoader[DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.example.hellojni-1/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/com.example.hellojni-1/lib/arm64, /vendor/lib64, /system/lib64]]] couldn't find "libhello.so"

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UPDATE

Solution in https://github.com/skanti/Android-Project-Command-Line

Solution

The path you specify here seems like the culprit:

aapt add hellojni.apk ./lib/arm64/libhello.so

I tried adding a bogus file to an APK using the same type of path and then listing the APK contents:

./aapt.exe add test.apk ./lib/libbcc.dll
./aapt.exe list test.apk

And got this in the output:

./lib/libbcc.dll

I.e. I ended up with a directory named . in the root of the APK, inside of which a lib directory was created, inside of which the libbcc.dll file was placed (I confirmed this by opening the APK with 7zip).

If I remove the ./:

./aapt.exe add test.apk lib/libbcc.dll
./aapt.exe list test.apk

I get the correct results:

lib/libbcc.dll

(I tested this both via Windows cmd and MSys2, with the same results)

Answered By - Michael