Support for extra libraries in APK in Android QT Creator -- Merge request

[BogDan]

Hi Carlos,

  Thank you  for your effort !


  I'll finish the review of your code next week, I took a quick look to your merger request and I've seen 

small things that you must change, all " // By Carlos Quiros" comments must go away,
Nokia will not accept such things inside the source code, if you want to put your name there
please use the header (license) section of the file.
  Assets support, and the deployment handling task currently is assigned to me, I don't 
want to do double work here, so we should start a discussion on this topic, I'd like to know how did 
you thought to implement this feature ?


Cheers,
BogDan.



----- Original Message -----
> From: Frameworks <frameworks at qlands.com>
> To: BogDan <bog_dan_ro at yahoo.com>; "necessitas-devel at kde.org" <necessitas-devel at kde.org>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 3:03 PM
> Subject: Support for extra libraries in APK in Android QT Creator -- Merge request
> 
> Dear Bogdan,
> 
> I just send a merge request for the changes in creator that add support for 
> extra libraries in the APK. Here are the details:
> 
> Add in support for extra libraries.
> 
> This merge request mainly focuses on the modification to Android QT Creator to 
> include support for extra deploy libraries in the APK. As described in the 
> modified UI, “Extra libraries are other libraries that are required by this 
> application but not part of this project.”
> 
> The changes in Creator does not automatically affect current Necessitas 
> projects. If the user want to include an extra library Creator will ask to 
> upgrade it project to support it. The process of upgrading will:
> 
> 1. Check if its possible. Users will be able to upgrade if their version of 
> Android LightHouse supports extra libraries i.e., if the version of libs.xml in 
> LightHouse has the array name extra_libs.
> 2. Upgrade the project's ibs.xml to add the array name extra_libs.
> 3. Upgrade the projects manifest to include the resource of extra_libs.
> 4. Copy the class files from LightHouse to the project (Industrius and mobile). 
> This because the version in LightHouse has the modifications to load the extra 
> libraries. All files are copied to be sure that previous class files in the 
> project does not conflict with current class files.
> 5. Leave a backup of libs.xml, class files and the manifest in the project 
> directory. Those files will include “._old” in their extension
> 
> This set of changes also fixes two bugs in Creator:
> 
> 1- Checked bundled libraries get unchecked just before the APK is build. (Line 
> 133 in androidpackage creationstep.cpp)
> 2- Bundled libraries have the format libMyLib.so when it should be the 
> undecorated version of them e.g., Mylib (Line 904 in qt4androidtarget.cpp)
> 
> This merge request also comes with a merge of few changes in 
> qlands-AndroidLighthouse to support extra libraries in the apk.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Carlos Quiros
> 
> PD
> I am also working on assets support in Creator and the necessary changes in QT 
> using JNI. I could send you something very soon if you fancy.
>