Building on the Command Line

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

Last updated 15/01/2014, with versionCode at 41.

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

0. Stuff you need

aptitude install openjdk-7-jdk gradle git

Note : You need Gradle 1.10 to compile MPDroid. Older and newer versions might not work.

You will also need the Android SDK. As you'll see in step 3, this is currently API version 19. If this document is not updated, you'll probably 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 $GRADLE_HOME and $ANDROID_HOME are 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)
JmDNS              (a Bonjour compatible multi-cast DNS discovery library)
LICENSE
MPDroid            (the MPDroid Android project)
README.md
Screenshots
Website
icons

4. Build MPDroid.

> gradle build

The output from this should be BUILD SUCCESSFUL.

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

This command will rebuild and install directly:

> gradle installDebug

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