On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Christian Robottom Reis kiko@linaro.org wrote:
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 04:15:37PM -0300, Ricardo Salveti wrote:
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Zach Pfeffer zach.pfeffer@linaro.org wrote:
One thing to keep in mind is that developers will get these tools from Google during their SDK install. Are we going to wrap that install?
The idea was to make some of the tools available at Ubuntu directly, so that's why it'd be good to know which tools are the most important ones first.
I definitely want Ubuntu to be a fantastic platform for Android development, and if the best experience is provided by having the tools packaged directly, let's do it.'
With this kind of approach one could be one apt-get away from having an Android developer suite installed on their ubuntu system combined with Linaro's improvements.
OTOH as Zach mentioned, one could keep the expectation that Android devs must complete the install steps as documented at Google, and that further additions from linaro would be a further steps.
As long as install isn't awful, I could see either way being reasonable.
Another criteria is if it allows for more opportunistic Android hacking -- i.e. I have an Ubuntu system and an Android device and am scared of this big opaque third-party-provided Android SDK; can I install some tools (adb etc) from the Ubuntu archive that let me start hacking right away?
I'd sure like to think so.
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