How to run on android

[NikNik77]

Hello. Would you be able to describe how to run it on android. Me and my colleague are in trouble. Thanks in advance.

[adrien-ben]

Hi, did you take a look at the android branch ? https://github.com/adrien-ben/vulkan-tutorial-rs/tree/android

[NikNik77]

Hi, did you take a look at the android branch ? https://github.com/adrien-ben/vulkan-tutorial-rs/tree/android

Excuse me. I am not experienced in rust android development. I have seen android branch, but can not understand how to obtain apk file to install.

[adrien-ben]

I think you should find more information here. It's not specified in the readme but you'll have to install the android development kit first.

Once you're there if you need more specific help related to this project I'll be glad to help.

[NikNik77]

So, you use cargo apk build. In my computer it produces error. I think that because of android sdk and ndk paths are changed by google last time.

1. What version of cargo-apk do you use?
2. What are you ANDROID_HOME and ANDROID_SDK_ROOT environmental variables?
3. What are you ANDROID_NDK_HOME and NDK_HOME environmental variables?
4. Where are you sdk and ndk located?

I am not able to repair source code of cargo-apk, because don't know what it should do. If I recognize appropriate configuration I will be able to make a patch.

[adrien-ben]

1. I use the latest version
2. ANDROID_HOME is not set, ANDROID_SDK_ROOT is set to C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk (on windows with default installation path)
3. You should set ANDROID_NDK_ROOT and for me it is set to C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\ndk\<version>
4. See 2 and 3

[adrien-ben]

Also you should build a release version cargo apk build --release or the application might crash because of validation layers on android