How to use Curl Library in Android

To compile Curl library for android, follow this post

Here is the simple Android Example using Curl Library.
Source Code:https://github.com/JohnnyIqbal/AndroidCurlEx

How to compile Curl Library for Android in Linux

1. Download the source code of curl library http://curl.haxx.se/download.html

2.Create a file build_andorid.sh and copy below content and save file into Curl folder.

 #!/bin/bash  
 NDK=<yourpath>/android-ndk-r9d  
 SYSROOT=$NDK/platforms/android-19/arch-arm/  
 CFLAGS="-fno-exceptions -Wno-multichar -mthumb -mthumb-interwork -nostdlib -lc -ldl -lm "  
 LDFLAGS="-Wl,--fix-cortex-a8"   
 export AR="$NDK/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.8/prebuilt/linux-x86/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-ar"  
 export LD="$NDK/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.8/prebuilt/linux-x86/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-ld"  
 export CC="$NDK/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.8/prebuilt/linux-x86/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-gcc --sysroot=$SYSROOT"  
 ./configure \  
 --host=arm-linux-androideabi \  
 --prefix=/<your output folder path where include,lib and bin will folder copy >/curllib/ \  
 --exec-prefix=/<your output folder path where include,lib and bin will folder copy >/curllib/  
 make clean  
 make  
 make install  

3.Change build_android.sh mode to executable mode,Open terminal and head(i,e. cd)  to curl directory and run below code.

 sudo chmod +x 777 build_android.sh  
 ./build_android.sh  

4. If you want to download compiled curl library  for android click below link
https://github.com/JohnnyIqbal/Curl_For_Android_Compiled

5. Android Example of Curl Library https://github.com/JohnnyIqbal/AndroidCurlEx

How to port C library to Android as a static library.

Hi,

How to port C library to Android as a static library.

We build the  C library as a static library(*.a) and build a shared library using static library. because Android packaged only shared library in apk.
SourceCode Link:https://github.com/JohnnyIqbal/PortStaticEx.git

How to port C library to Android as a shared library(.so)

Hi,

How to port C library to Android as a shared library(.so).

We build C library as a shared library for android because android packaged only shared library in apk.

SourceCode Link:https://github.com/JohnnyIqbal/PortSharedEx.git

NDKHello2 Tutorial

Hi,
This is my Second NDKHello2 Demo project for newbies

SourceCode Link:https://github.com/JohnnyIqbal/NDKHello2
Please add appcompat library to run this project

In this demo I added a folder src in jni folder and tried to compile.

I followed this process to make this project.

1. Create NativeLib.java file

2. Open terminal and head to project directory

  cd bin/classes   

and generate header files of NativeLib.java using this command

 javah -jni com.iqbal.ndkhello.ndk.NativeLib  

3. Copy NativeLib.h file in jni folder (Create if not exist in project root)
or you can use this command

 javah -jni -o ../../jni/NativeLib.h com.iqbal.ndkhello.ndk.NativeLib  

4. Create NativeLib.c file and copy method signature in NativeLib.c
and don't foreget to include NativeLib.h

 Method Signature eg:  
 JNIEXPORT jstring JNICALL Java_com_iqbal_ndkhello_ndk_NativeLib_getHello2  

this is the declared method in header files and change to method defination

 #include"NativeLib.h"  
 JNIEXPORT jstring JNICALL Java_com_iqbal_ndkhello_ndk_NativeLib_getHello (JNIEnv *env, jclass clz){ return (*env)->NewStringUTF(env,"Hello World2"); }  

Note:NewStringUTF sometimes this function shows error means red line to suppress this error please update your CDT.

5. Add new folder in jni called src add some c files and header files as I did main.c and main.h

6. Call main.h function in NativeLib.c by including main.h header files.

 #include"src/main.h"  
 JNIEXPORT jint JNICALL Java_com_iqbal_ndkhello2_ndk_NativeLib_getAdd(  
   JNIEnv *env, jclass clz, jint a, jint b) {  
 int c=add(a,b); //this function declared in main.h and defiened in main.c  
 return c;  
 }  

7.Now create Android.mk file and write these lines to build

 LOCAL_PATH:=$(call my-dir)  
 include $(CLEAR_VARS)   
 LOCAL_MODULE:=hello2   
 LOCAL_SRC_FILES:=NativeLib.c src/main.c  
 include $(BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARY)  

8.Create Application.mk to suppress the Warnning or error android-19 is larger than minsdkversion 8 and write this lines

 APP_PLATFORM:=android-8  

android-8 is my minsdkversion so be sure about this change according to minsdkversion in AndroidManifest.xml


9.Open terminal head to project root and fire this command

 ndk-build  

10. Now run your Android NDKHello Project.