Stefan Röttger

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We need the following software packages (for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS):

• SDK
  • Do not download the full Android Studio package from the Google developer site. Download the SDK Tools Only for Linux.
  • e.g. android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux.tgz
• NDK
  • Get the 64-bit version of the NDK.
  • e.g. android-ndk-r12b-linux-x86_64.zip
• Qt
  • Get Qt 5.x
  • e.g. Qt 5.7.1 / Android for 64-bit Linux:
    • http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.7/5.7.1/qt-opensource-linux-x64-android-5.7.1.run

Put all of the above packages into a new folder:

• Uncompress the SDK tgz.
  • Start the SDK updater “tools/android” and choose to install the default packages.
  • Caution: Downloading will unpack to 20+ GB!
  • Get yourself a coffee. And another one…
• Unzip the NDK package
  • Caution: Will unpack to 2+ GB!
• Run the Qt installer
  • On the terminal type: chmod +x qt*.run; sudo ./qt*.run
  • This installs the Qt IDE to /opt/Qt-5.x
• Install related tools:
  • sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk ant lib32z1 lib64z1 subversion

Now we are principally ready for Qt Creator, but we first perform a couple of tests.

Update:

• as of March 2017, the SDK tools are no longer provided.
  • ** latest tools only version appears to be r25.2.5
• More recent versions are installed is via Android Studio, but older versions of the SDK tools are still available via cmd line:
  • wget http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux.tgz
  • start “tools/android”
  • do not select to upgrade the installer, just install the Android SDK build tools, the Android SDK platform tools and Android 7.0 (API 24)
  • older NDK versions like r12b that match the older SDK are also still available here.

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