Building on the Command Line

These notes are intended to help with compiling MPDroid from the command line.

This tutorial was written for Linux, and should work for any flavour of Debian or Ubuntu. The assumption here, of course, is that you're already comfortable on the command line.

Stuff you need

aptitude install openjdk-8-jdk git

You will need the latest SDK since MPDroid should always be compiled with it.

In the SDK manager, you should install :

• Android Tools
• Android Build-Tools
• Android Platform-Tools
• SDK Platform (of the required version)
• Android Support Repository

Ensure the SDK tools and platform-tools directories are in your $PATH and that $ANDROID_HOME is set.

If you are on a 64 bit system, you need to install the required 32 bit libs. Since the packages varies from a distro to another, here is what should be done on Ubuntu 13.10 : http://mem0ryleak.tumblr.com/post/64617476512/fix-android-adb-on-ubuntu-13-10-64bit

Please find instructions for making the Android sdk work on your configuration, as I (sadly) can't provide them all.

1. Get the code from github

git clone https://github.com/abarisain/dmix.git

Our base directory contain these files/folders:

JMPDComm           (open source library for communicating with MPD)
LICENSE
MPDroid            (the MPDroid Android project)
README.md
Screenshots
Website
icons

2. Build MPDroid.

> ./gradlew build

The output from this should be BUILD SUCCESSFUL.

3. Install your debug APK. (Make sure your phone is connected!)

This command will rebuild and install directly:

> ./gradlew installFossDebug

Or alternatively, you can use the Android tools to install:

> adb install MPDroid/build/MPDroid-debug-unaligned.apk

Additionally, you can uninstall (in order to reinstall) using this command:

> adb uninstall com.namelessdev.mpdroid