Android Builds of OpenJDK Mobile project now available

[Ali Ebrahimi]

Hi,


On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Bob Vandette <bob.vandette at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Ali,
>
> I decided to take a slightly different approach to supporting NDK r10e.
>
> My last patch did add support for this version of the NDK but forced the
> Java runtime
> to only support API level 21 and higher.  This means we would only be able
> to run
> on devices with Android 5  and newer.
>
> If you look at the Android Dashboard, there are still a lot of devices
> that are supporting
> API level 19.
>
> http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
>
> I think it’s best that we set API level 19 as our minimum supported API
> level for now.
>
> This means that we can still use NDK r10e but you need to specify
> —platform=android-19
> when generating the standalone toolchain.
>
> Taking this approach also reduces the number of changes required in the
> mobile/dev
> forest to only 2 files.
>
> Here’s the webrev:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bobv/8150074/webrev.01/
>
> I’ll push this change and update the build instructions.
>
My main concern with this patch is that build shouldn't break
with android-21 toolchain.

If will try solve this if you want.

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Best Regards,
Ali Ebrahimi