cargo-android

cargo-android is a bare-bones, no dependency wrapper around cargo that sets up the necessary environment variables to cross-compile for Android.

Usage

1. Install cargo-android.

   cargo install --git https://github.com/chenxiaolong/cargo-android

2. Install the Android Rust target. This requires Rust to be installed via rustup because most other distributions do not package the Android targets.

   rustup target add aarch64-linux-android

3. Set the ANDROID_NDK_ROOT environment variable to the path of the Android NDK toolchain.

4. Set the ANDROID_API environment variable to the desired API level (eg. Android 14 is API 34). If left unset, the latest API level supported by the NDK toolchain will be used. Executables compiled for old Android versions can run on newer Android versions, but the reverse is not always true.

5. Run cargo commands by prefixing the subcommand with android. For example:

   cargo build --target aarch64-linux-android --release

   would become:

   cargo android build --target aarch64-linux-android --release

   If --target is not specified or if the target is not an Android target, then the wrapper just runs cargo as-is, without setting any environment variables.

Contributing

Bug fixes are welcome! However, I'm unlikely to accept changes for supporting additional features or configuration that I don't need for my personal projects.

License

cargo-android is licensed under GPLv3. Please see LICENSE for the full license text.