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

Petar Koretić petar.koretic at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 22:05:16 CET 2014


https://plus.google.com/+JeffSharkey/posts/4kxjY9JFemL
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26744842/how-to-use-the-new-sd-card-access-api-presented-for-lollipop

It seems the answer is to use new API using intents for Lolipop 5.0?

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Harri Pasanen <harri at mpaja.com> wrote:

> I don't know for sure, but it is likely related.
>
> Already now with KitKat 4.4.2 I've been unable use local libs deployed
> to temporary directory due to various errors.
>
> I've been wondering is it not possible to deploy the Qt libraries to an
> app specific directory and then just update the apk in place, rather
> than using a temp directory?   A related question is that can an app
> write its own shared libs?   If it can, then I assume for development
> purposes that could work so that app copies the libs it uses from some
> common area.   That might be faster than over the usb deployment.
>
> Harri
>
> On 26/11/2014 19:55, md at rpzdesign.com wrote:
> > 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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> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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