[CMake] Android In-Depth CMake Questions

[Gregory Peele ARA/CFD]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cmake-bounces at cmake.org [mailto:cmake-bounces at cmake.org] On
> Behalf Of Rolf Eike Beer
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 2:39 PM
> To: cmake at cmake.org
> Subject: Re: [CMake] Android In-Depth CMake Questions
> 
> Gregory Peele ARA/CFD wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm experimenting with adding more in-depth support for Android to my
> > CMake-based projects since I have a large body of CMake-built C++
> code
> > I want to use on Android (but not make Android-specific).  I used the
> > Google Android toolchain file as a starting point for NDK support,
> and
> > wrote a platform definition for Android so that the toolchain file
> > only has to locate the right cross compiler. I also wrote functions
> to
> > define Android APK targets using the Android SDK and Ant (for now) to
> > compile the Java pieces and the final APK, where my functions deal
> > with generating temporary Android projects for each APK target,
> > generating an Android manifest from a template file based on CMake
> > variables, and staging native CMake .so targets and non-system
> external libraries into the right spot to be put
> > into the APK.   The APK install step also has an option to install to
> the
> > Android emulator or attached devices using ADB.
> >
> > First off, is there any general interest in this kind of work?  Would
> > other people find this sort of thing useful in CMake itself?
> 
> Absolutely. I know that some people in KDE are trying to get their
> stuff ported to Android as well. Since KDE is basically entirely CMake-
> based everything that CMake could do out of the box will likely be of
> great value to them.
> 
> Eike

Very cool, I didn't know that.  That could also dovetail nicely with some of my long-term interests which involve porting my terrain visualization GUI applications (based on Qt and OpenSceneGraph, though not KDE). 

Gregory Peele, Jr.
Senior Scientist
Applied Research Associates, Inc.
Central Florida Division