[Android-development] [Development] Help needed to test Ministro 10.3, needed for Qt 5.4!

[md at rpzdesign.com]

Oops, I meant to say non-rooted devices.

Rooted devices can likely put the QT5 libraries permanently in an area
where any app can get to them.

md

On 11/26/2014 1:53 PM, md at rpzdesign.com wrote:
> Does this also kill Rooted devices used for development that allow us to
> compile a minimal executable for upload to the device and shorten the
> compile-upload-debug cycle times?
> 
> I like the idea of having a quick dev cycle time so I don't spend the
> rest of my days waiting for USB ADB executable uploads and debugger running.
> 
> md
> 
> On 11/26/2014 1:08 PM, Harri Pasanen wrote:
>> Hmm... looking at the issue it seems to me that it is not going to be
>> fixed, it is an intentional change.   They are tightening the platform
>> from security point of view, and this change is similar to change that
>> made removable SD cards much less useful in KitKat: 
>> https://plus.google.com/+TodLiebeck/posts/gjnmuaDM8sn
>>
>> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context.html#MODE_WORLD_READABLE
>> says it has been deprecated since API level 17, so I doubt they'll bring
>> it back.
>>
>> Ministro has had a good run, but unless I'm mistaken this basically
>> kills it?
>>
>> Harri
>>
>>
>> On 26/11/2014 13:28, Cristian Adam wrote:
>>>
>>> Please "star" the android issue so that Google developers understand
>>> the severity of the problem.
>>>
>>> It's not like only six people are affected by this.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Cristian.
>>>
>>> On 26 Nov 2014 12:45, "BogDan" <bog_dan_ro at yahoo.com
>>> <mailto:bog_dan_ro at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hello folks,
>>>
>>>     I have some bad news about Ministro on Android 5.0. Due to a
>>>     bug https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=79478 introduced
>>>     by Google in Android 5.0 final release apps that are using
>>>     Ministro are not working anymore, on Android L preview it worked
>>>     just fine. I hope in the next Android version Google will fix this
>>>     problem.
>>>
>>>     New stuff added to Ministro 10.
>>>     - application startup up speed improvement, I've cuted +150ms from the
>>>     time that your application needs to wait for Ministro's response, now
>>>     your application waits 2-4ms (of course if Ministro doesn't need to
>>>     download/extract anything).
>>>     - extract Qt 5.4 QuickControls style info
>>>     - speed up the theme extraction (now it needs 2/3 of the previous
>>>     time).
>>>     - extract InsetDrawable. On Android 4.4.4 it seems this Drawable is
>>>     used and will crash QWidget based apps if is not extracted.
>>>
>>>     New stuff added to 10.1
>>>      - bumped MINISTRO_MAX_API_LEVEL
>>>
>>>     New stuff added to 10.3
>>>      - for more exceptions on Android 5.0
>>>      - extract default palette & fonts, needed by Qt 5.4
>>>      - extract some Android 5.0 specific look and style info.
>>>
>>>     What happen with 10.2?
>>>      - I bumped the version to 10.3 by mistake and I pushed it, so
>>>     there was no 10.2 :).
>>>
>>>     How to test it:
>>>     - make sure the previous version is installed and your apps are
>>>     using it.
>>>     - install over the previous version ($ adb install -r Ministro\
>>>     II\ v10.3.apk).
>>>       * Ministro will extract again *ONCE* the style.
>>>       * Trying your existing apps should *NOT* trigger any new downloads.
>>>     - after you test your applications with Ministro installed on top of
>>>     previous Ministro version, please test in on a clean installation. So,
>>>     go to settings -> apps and remove Ministro, then install it again ($
>>>     adb install Ministro\ II\ v10.3.apk).
>>>       * Ministro should extract style info and certificates and it should
>>>     download again all needed libs.
>>>       * Your application should work without any recompilation.
>>>
>>>
>>>     Please download and test Ministro from here:
>>>     https://files.kde.org/necessitas/installer/test/Ministro%20II%20v10.3.apk
>>>
>>>     Thank you!
>>>
>>>     Cheers,
>>>     BogDan.
>>>
>>>
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