[lxc-users] Announcing public builds of LXC for Android

[Tony Su]

I don't know of a specific online build service that could do android
builds for you but I know the technology exists...

eg If you know of Jenkins CI (Continuous Integration), it's a powerful open
sourced and publicly licensed technology that integrates technologies like
your choice of version control and your choice of build environments. The
idea is that a team of coders can submit their contributions at any time
and the system will automatically build and test against your choice of dev
branch, either merging or maintaining a separate branch automatically
without enforced milestones.

Off the top of my head, I don't remember that the Open Build Service (run
by SUSE) builds for Android although it'll package your code for
practically every distro in existence(with a manifest specifying
distro-specific dependencies) with a few clicks.

The only online APK build services I know of only package HTML, Java or
dotNET code and I wouldn't expect yours to be either of these of course.
Assuming your code is C I can only think of building using a locally
installed Eclipse with Android SDK installed(unless someone sets up
something like Jenkins)

But, if you're going so far as to modify the kernel (are you doing more
than simply loading kernel modules?), are there Google licensing issues?

Tony



On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 08:11:13AM -0800, Tony Su wrote:
> > Interesting.
> > But, many existing Android Users will still have a problem
> > running/installing a tarball.
> >
> > If you could take it one step further to package in an APK, you'll likely
> > get far wider usage.
> > Of course, with Android, it's also critical to fully document the system
> > requirements, particularly which Android version the build is against.
> >
> > Tony
>
> If you could point me to an easy way to generate an APK from a project
> which doesn't use the Android build system, needs to be deployed and
> always ran as root and in non-standard location, I'd be interested.
>
> Considering the kernel requirements, I very much doubt we'll find users
> who know how to build their own kernel and deploy them but don't know
> how to unpack a tarball on their device :)
>
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com
> >wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Some of you may have noticed the rather large amount of fixes I've been
> > > working on for a while to get LXC to behave mostly fine on Android.
> > >
> > > With the recent rework of LXC's automated build system, I'm now happy
> to
> > > announce that every hour (provided there's a change in git master), a
> > > new android tarball will be produced with binaries built against the
> > > current version of the Android NDK.
> > >
> > > Resulting builds may be found at:
> > > http://qa.linuxcontainers.org/master/current/android-armel/
> > >
> > > If you want to run those, you'll need an ARM based Android device with
> a
> > > compatible kernel (you'll likely need to hand-build one), then unpack
> > > the tarball in /, unpack a container in /data/lxc/containers/ and
> > > finally start it with "./run-lxc lxc-start -n <container>".
> > >
> > > I expect all the binaries command to work fine. The templates and all
> > > other scripts currently don't due to the rather limited shell being
> > > available on Android. I may try to resolve that in the near future.
> > >
> > > Have fun!
> > >
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