(C++) Android development using Qt Creator under Ubuntu

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Install the Android SDK
Install the Android NDK
From now, I follow the instructions of [1] in some more detail, for the android-lighthouse version of the 20th January 2011
Obtain the source code, by typing at command-line:

git clone git://gitorious.org/~taipan/qt/android-lighthouse.git

Move the 'android-lighthouse' folder to a suitable location. I put mine in '/home/richel/qtsdk-2010.04/bin/Projects'
In this version, I believe you do not need to modify 'mkspecs/android-g++/qmake.conf' anymore
Instead of editing the nonexisting androidconfig.sh [1], edit androidconfigbuild.sh. ANDROID_NDK_ROOT must be set to the android-lighthouse folder. I changed this from the default folder ('/usr/local/android-ndk-r5') to another folder ('/MyFolder/android-ndk-r5') by changing the following line in androidconfigbuild.sh:\

export ANDROID_NDK_ROOT=/usr/local/android-ndk-r5

to:

export ANDROID_NDK_ROOT=/MyFolder/android-ndk-r5

From a command-line start the androidconfigbuild.sh script as a super-user (otherwise the final make step fails):

sudo ./androidconfigbuild.sh

This takes some time...

Compiling Qt (as indicated by [1]) is not necessary anymore, as this is done in the previous step already

From this step on, I cannot find out what to do. According to [2], the instructions come out 2-3 weeks after the 19th January 2011.

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