Install files, DEPLOYMENT

[Niko Sams]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 20:48, Espen Riskedal <espen at cutehacks.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Niko Sams <niko.sams at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> now that libs are loaded (previous mail) the next step is installing
>> files. qmake usually allows that using DEPLOYMENT - but I think this
>> is not yet implemented.
>> Please correct me, or tell me where I could implement it myself.
>
> I don't think it's implemented yet, but I'm not sure. Anyways, I
> believe the right place would to add the DEPLOYMENT handling in:
>   android-qt-creator/src/plugins/qt4projectmanager/qt-android/qt4androidtarget.cpp
> as it's where it's doing all the other AndroidManifest.xml magic.
>
> Ideally this would actually be moved to qmake or some other
> command-line-tool, so that it would work without Qt Creator as well.
>
> I think it'll be pretty straight-forward to implement it.
> qmake DEPLOYMENT is documented here:
>  http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qmake-variable-reference.html#deployment
> AndroidManifest.xml is documented here:
>  http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/manifest-intro.html
>
> The whole thing seems pretty similar (and better!) than the .pkg file
> stuff for Symbian.
>
As Carlos said already it's not that easy to access assets. And
apparently Bogdan
is already working on that topic.
As a workaround I copied the data manually onto a sdcard.

Niko