Want to compile native Android binary I can run in terminal on the phone

Question

I\'ve been trying for a couple days to compile a native ARM Android binary that will execute on my phone using a terminal application. I want to generate the same type of bi

Answer 1

Using CMake with the Android NDK is a nice way to compile Android console applications.

Download CMake and android-cmake (set it up like this). If your program is called main.c, then write the following in file CMakeLists.txt:

project(test)
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
add_executable(test ./main.c)

and run cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=$ANDTOOLCHAIN .

You will then have a Makefile for your program, you can run make to have your test executable.