Using Qt for Android (July 2017)
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Installation
Qt libraries and QtCreator
In the website of Qt, download the Qt installer open-source application development. Then go to the directory where it is downloaded, make it executable and run it as root:
chmod 777 qt-unified-linux-x64-3.0.0-online.run sudo ./qt-unified-linux-x64-3.0.0-online.run
When the next window appears then click on skip to continue without registering:
Then choose the installation path, the default one is usually a good choice:
Make sure that the Tools and a version of the Qt libraries are selected, inside it also select the android packages:
Once the installation is finished you can add the qtcreator executable to the system PATH or link into a directory that is already in it:
sudo ln -sf /opt/Qt/Tools/QtCreator/bin/qtcreator.sh /usr/local/bin/qtcreator
Android Tools & SDK
To install the android tools follow the next instructions (the recommended version for now is r25.2.5). The first step is to download it and decompress it:
sudo mkdir -p /opt/android wget https://dl.google.com/android/repository/tools_r25.2.5-linux.zip mkdir android-sdk cd android-sdk unzip ../tools_r25.2.5-linux.zip
Then execute it to download the rest of the components:
cd tools ./android
Make sure that Android SDK Platform-tools, Android SDK Build-tools and at least one of the Android API are selected:
Then accept the license and after the installation is finish move the Android SDK to an accessible directory.
cd ../.. sudo mv android-sdk/ /opt/android/
The next step is to install the Android NDK. Download it, uncompress it and copy it to the same directory as the SDK with the following commands:
wget https://dl.google.com/android/repository/android-ndk-r10e-linux-x86_64.zip unzip android-ndk-r10e-linux-x86_64.zip sudo mv android-ndk-r10e /opt/android/android-ndk
Integrate Android Tools in QtCreator
First install the necessary dependencies:
sudo apt-get install libstdc++6:i386 libgcc1:i386 zlib1g:i386 libncurses5:i386 libsdl1.2debian:i386 libgl1-mesa-dev openjdk-8-jdk
