Android development

[shasum]

Hi all,
Has anyone managed to compile code for Android on the Pi?
I know that Google deems it officially not supported, but surely someone has tried to build the tools and the IDE?
Also, what are all of the Android packages listed by "sudo apt list" for, if not to compile Android code?
Thanks.

[rpdom]

I haven't built any Android code on a Pi, but I don't see why it couldn't be done. I've done it on a PC using some of the same tools.

It won't run on a Pi though, at least not in Raspi OS.

[hippy]

I usually use MIT App Inventor 2 to create Android Apps and I guess that would work as it's web based. I think I tried it and it worked but don't really remember.

Having noted a few questions on installing Android Studio and SDK on a Pi in passing there are no pre-built ARM binaries so you will need to build it from source. I believe that used to work but the big issue is amount of RAM. That may not be such an issue these days with the 4B, particularly the 8GB version.

I don't recall any "I did it and it works" posts so you may have to try it and see.

[fruitoftheloom]

Hi all,
Has anyone managed to compile code for Android on the Pi?
I know that Google deems it officially not supported, but surely someone has tried to build the tools and the IDE?
Also, what are all of the Android packages listed by "sudo apt list" for, if not to compile Android code?
Thanks.

android-sdk is in the RaspiOS repositories:

https://packages.debian.org/buster/android-sdk