Android Support

[evan-swinney]

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Has there been any work to make QArchive work in an Android environment? Libarchive officially supports Android builds, and it'd be nice if QArchive also worked on Android. Currently it doesn't compile with Android.

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[antony-jr]

I'm not sure what needs to be rewritten to make this support in Android, the code is already cross platform so only build related issues I assume. I will test this from my side and update you.

[evan-swinney]

If time permits, I'll try and get you the compile error when compiling for Android. If it helps at all, I'm using the Qt 5.15 branch, and the project is using QMake still.

[antony-jr]

QMake is not supported by Qt itself, better migrate to CMake. Even our CI/CD are not testing QMake regularly.

[antony-jr]

As far as I know, what we need to do is make QML classes to communicate with the C++ part to use QArchive within Qt for Android, since raw C++ is not supported in Qt for Android. This is not that hard, I've done this in the past.

EDIT: Actually thinking about it, you should create a C++ class that can be used in QML to use QArchive under the hood, it should be simple.