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Introduction

vs-android is intended to provide a collection of scripts and utilities to support integrated development of Android NDK C/C++ software under Microsoft Visual Studio.

Currently vs-android only works under Visual Studio 2010. Earlier versions lack the MSBuild integration with the C/C++ compilation systems.

Features

  • Compile and link Android C/C++ projects within Visual Studio.
  • Integrated development, no makefiles. Works as another 'Platform' type.
  • Android settings co-exist within the same VS projects as other platforms.
  • Supports static library projects, and links them in if marked as project dependencies.
  • Intellisense and 'External Dependencies' correctly pull in Android NDK headers.
  • Cygwin install is not required.
  • Over twice as fast as using ndk-build under Cygwin. For full rebuilds, and incremental changes.
  • Ctrl-F7: compile single file functions, has no dependency checking wait.
  • Applications build to .apk package files, and can be deployed and ran using vs-android.
  • Supports selection of STL types, Arm Architecture, and API versions.
  • Support for the x86 toolchain introduced with the r6 SDK.

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Version History

v0.93 - 13th November 2011

  • NDK r7 was a breaking change for vs-android. This version now requires r7 or newer to be installed.
  • Fixed breaking changes to the location of STL libraries. Also fixed new linking issues introduced by STL changes.
  • Removed support for defunct arm 4.4.0 toolset.
  • Added support for android-14, Android API v4.0.
  • Added support for the dynamic (shared) version of the GNU libstdc++ STL.
  • Tested against newest JDK - jdk-7u1-windows-i586.
  • Added support for building assembly files. '.s' and '.asm' extensions will be treated as assembly code.
  • Correct passing of ANT_OPTS to the Ant Build step. Thanks to 'mark.bozeman'.
  • Corrected expected apk name for release builds.
  • Added to Ant Build property page; the ability to add extra flags to the calls to adb.
  • Fixed bug with arm arch preprocessor defines not making it onto the command line.
  • Fixed bad quote removal on paths, in the C# code. Thanks to 'hoesing@kleinbottling'.
  • Removed stlport project from Google Code - This was an oversight by Google in the r6 NDK, prebuilt is back again.
  • Updated sample projects to work with R15 SDK tools.

v0.92 - 3rd August 2011

  • Fixed jump-to-line clickable errors. Reworked code to use regular expressions instead. Tried a number of different compiler/linker warnings and errors and all seems to be good
  • Default warning level is now 'Normal Warnings', instead of 'Disable All Warnings'. Whoops!
  • Fixed rtti-related warnings when compiling .c files with 'Enable All Warnings (-Wall)', turned on.

v0.91 - 2nd August 2011

  • Windows debugger is now usable. Fixed 'CLRSupport' error.
  • Error checking to ensure the 32-bit JDK is used.
  • Added JVM Heap options to Ant Build step. Initial and Maximum sizes are able to be set there now.
  • Added asafhel...@gmail's 'clickable errors from compiler' C# code.
  • Modified clickable errors code to also work with #include errors, which specify the column number too.
  • Added clickable error support to linker too.

v0.9 - 20th July 2011

  • Major update, hence the skip in numbers. Closing in on a v1.0 release.
  • Verified working with Android NDK r5b, r5c, and r6.
  • Much of vs-android functionality moved from MSBuild script to C# tasks. Similar approach now to Microsoft's existing Win32 setup.
  • Dependency checking rewritten to use tracking log files.
  • Dependency issues fixed, dependency checking also now far quicker.
  • Android Property sheets now completely replace the Microsoft ones, no more rafts of unused sheets.
  • Property sheets populated with many options. Switches are no longer hard-coded within vs-android script.
  • STL support added. Choice between 'None', 'Minimal', 'libstdc++', and 'stlport'.
  • Support for x86 compilation with r6 NDK.
  • Full support for v7-a arm architecture, as well as the existing v5.
  • Support for Android API directories other than just 'android-9'.
  • Separated support for 'dynamic libraries' and 'applications'. Applications build to apk files.
  • Response files used in build, no more command-line length limitations.
  • Deploy and run within Visual Studio, adb is now invoked by vs-android.
  • 'Echo command lines' feature fixed.
  • All support SDK/libs (NDK, SDK, Ant, JDK) are okay living in directories with spaces in them now.
  • All bugs logged within Google Code are addressed.

v0.21 - 10th Feb 2011

  • Fixed issues with the 'ant build' step.
  • Added a sensible error message if the NDK envvar isn't set, or is set incorrectly.

v0.2 - 1st Feb 2011

  • Changed default preprocessor symbols to work the same way Microsoft's stuff does. Should fix any issues with intellisense as well.
  • Added support for scanning header dependencies.

v0.1 - 30th Jan 2011

  • Initial version.
  • All major functionality present, barring header dependency checking.

License

vs-android is released under the zlib license. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib_License

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