lets try to build Pandroid projects

[JanuszChmiel]

Pandroid is special Pascal language bundle available for Linux and Windows. The advanced programmer uses it to make special database application for his professional working. He has brought The possibility to code in Pascal programming language with no need to work with A separate .xml files to create GUI on The screen. I will upload A sample project, which will only create empty window. But it is A good Pandroid project template. My plan is very realistic. I would like to combine Bash script with special GTK based dialog system to create helper script which would combine yours apk builder with Pandroid.
The following experiment will begin on my flat now.
I will download Pandroid bundle for Linux not for Windows, since bitecode of SDK build tools is very probably different between SDK for Windows and Linux.
Issues are as follows.
Apache ant used to create .apk packages from Pandroid project do not support newer Java than version 7. It is known limitation of The Apache ant and can not be simply solved, because even core developers of Apache Ant do not try to solve this issue.
Unfortunately, it is very unlikely, that someone will obtain Openjdk 7.0 source and would try to make it so stable and reliable from Termux without Proot like todays Open jdk 11.0 is available. It seems to Me, that someone has made it very stable and that someone had to modify its source code.

So what about triing to replace Apache Ant by using APk builder script to build .dex and apk package?

Project is available here.
https://github.com/zeljkoc/Pandroid
git clone https://github.com/zeljkoc/pandroid.git
And I will upload shell script to build .apk as soon as possible. We need to find out how to replace Apache ant by routine used by MR Rausty build apk routines if it will be possible to achieve this goal.

I will be able to use standard Android text editors and I would build .apk by using build apk from Termux.

I Am attaching build.sh and .xml files related to Apache Ant. Author has used Java version 1.6.
build_debug_apk.sh.txt

Sure, remove .txt from The file extension. I need to bypass Github routines.
build.xml.txt

All example projects can be found in The Examples folder. Project as Scrollview is ideal for testing.

[SDRausty]

lets try to build Pandroid projects

This sounds fantastic @JanuszChmiel; Please keep us updated of progress!

[SDRausty]

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[SDRausty]

download Pandroid bundle for Linux not for Windows, since bitecode of SDK build tools is very probably different between SDK for Windows and Linux.

build.repo.bash https://github.com/zeljkoc/Pandroid/
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d ~/buildAPKs/sources/github.com/zeljkoc/Pandroid/
3.5G
find ~/buildAPKs/sources/github.com/zeljkoc/Pandroid/ -type f -name AndroidManifest.xml | wc -l
68
find ~/buildAPKs/sources/github.com/zeljkoc/Pandroid/ -type f -name *pp | wc -l
9237

These extra steps can save gigabites of data:

gcl https://github.com/zeljkoc/Pandroid/
tar zcf Pandroid.tar.gz Pandroid/
mkdir ~/buildAPKs/sources/github.com/zeljkoc/
cp -r Pararoid/ ~/buildAPKs/sources/github.com/zeljkoc/
find ~/buildAPKs/sources/github.com/zeljkoc/Pandroid/ -type f -name build.xml -execdir ant {} \;

[JanuszChmiel]

Unfortunately it will stay only my big dream. Who would recode Java 6 to run with Termux with no Proot? Only in this case, if An app is directly executed without Proot app is fast enough. Like yours Build apk software, it very probably do not use Linux distro. If Apache Ant would not be simply replaced by other commands or environment, it will be impossible to build on Termux. I like Pascal so much because it is procedural language. Author of Pandroid has shown Me some commands how to create GUI without using number to specify object position values. Produced code do not cause memory leaks.

[SDRausty]

These commands want a lib.jar file:
find $RDR/sources/github.com/zeljkoc/ -type f -name build.xml > $RDR/tmp/bfile.file && grep -v '^ *#' < "$RDR"/tmp/bfile.file | while IFS= read -r bfile ; do cd ${bfile%/*} ; ant ; done

These commands want the lib.jar file too:
find $RDR/sources/github.com/zeljkoc/Pandroid/ -type f -name compile.sh > $RDR/tmp/comp.files && grep -v '^ *#' < $RDR/tmp/comp.files | while IFS= read -r CFILES; do $CFILES ; done

Do you know where the lib.jar file is?

[SDRausty]

Have you tried these commands?
find $RDR/sources/github.com/zeljkoc/Pandroid/ -type f -name compile.sh > $RDR/tmp/compile.sh.files && grep -v '^ *#' < $RDR/tmp/compile.sh.files | while IFS= read -r CFILES; do cd ${CFILES%/*} ; pwd ; $CFILES ; done

[SDRausty]

Please try cp -r ~/github/zeljkoc/Pandroid/* ~/buildAPKs/sources/github.com/zeljkoc/Pandroid/

build.repo.bash https://github.com/zeljkoc/Pandroid/

After using ~/buildAPKs/update.buildAPKs.sh as these commits incorperate our latest work.

[SDRausty]

~/.../zeljkoc/Pandroid $ find -type f -name *apk | wc -l 33

[SDRausty]

*Do you know where the lib.jar file is located?

[JanuszChmiel]

Lib.jar is really not A part of Pandroid tree, I have downloaded whole tree. I will install your build apk. And I will send a string, which Pandroid for Windows send to FPC compiler to generate .class file, I think, that it will be much easier to understand The compilation process from The perspective of Windows, and foldernames can be changed.

[JanuszChmiel]

Here is template.zip. It is from Pandroid for Windows. But never mind, because Pandroid package master, Windows variant is easily to understand how are .pas sources compiled to .class and to .dex format.
I Am sending Template.zip with build.xml file.
And I will finally send long command which generate .class file by compiling .pas sources and some other units. Really, we need to incorporate to yours project, because for now, it is The fastest possible way to build .apk packages on Android device. No chaos, no instability, no need to even enable storage permission by typing termux-setup-storage.
template.zip

[JanuszChmiel]

Sure. Normal users uses this package by using Lazarus. Some advanced would had to reprogram FPC latest stable to be compatible with Termux. Because to build sources it would be necessary to use FPC compatible with Termux. I will try to kindly ask MR Pliush for help. Deep libraries and C language knowledge is required for this task.

[SDRausty]

easier to understand the compilation process

These newly created scripts attempt to automate the build process:

~/buildAPKs $ ls scripts/bash/github/build.repo
build.repo+.bash            
build.repo.build.sh.bash
build.repo.ant.bash         
build.repo.compile.sh.bash
build.repo.bash

Feedback regarding these newly created scripts is requested.

[JanuszChmiel]

It is interesting. It do not work. I AM doing something wrong. I have installed apk builds. Very interesting. I have typed
apt install curl

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SDRausty/buildAPKs/master/setup.buildAPKs.bash

bash setup.buildAPKs.bash

So what should I type now to continue please? I Am not so professional like you are, so thank you for your patience dear MR Rausty.

[JanuszChmiel]

Dear kind MR Rausty, First of all, I would like to express to you The deepest respect possible. And my deepest possible appreciation to your programmer's knowledge. Your project is revolutionary and really, it can build many Java-based repositories based on Apache ANT or Eclipse. The issue is, that Pandroid works differently. It uses a special little app compiled by Pascal compiler which generates a special file with some Hexadecimal classes. Then PPCJVm must translate .pas sources or .lpr and .inc Pascal sources to Java classes .class file. Then Jasmin.jar, an old but still fully functional Java assembler assembles those Java classes. Then Apache Ant builds those classes to .dex format. The Advanced Free Pascal programmer has given The following instructions to Me related to PPCJVM for Android. ***@***.***/msg01659.html

[SDRausty]

~/.../zeljkoc/Pandroid $ find -type f -name *apk | wc -l 33

I cannot get more than one of these APKs to build; How about you?

[JanuszChmiel]

Sure, because I have made big error. It was A wrong idea from Me to open this issue related to APK uilder. Because. Sample Projects are generated thanks to Lazarus, special pandroid Binary module and PPCJVM. It is not clean Java project to build. Try to imagine, that all files in classes folder will be removed. It is necessary to combine PPCJVM with Android building tools.

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