[Android-development] [Development] Help needed to test Ministro 10.3, needed for Qt 5.4!
BogDan
bog_dan_ro at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 27 08:35:22 CET 2014
Hi,
You can't use intents to load libs and Qt resources :).
Cheers,
BogDan.
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From: Petar Koretić <petar.koretic at gmail.com>
To: Harri Pasanen <harri at mpaja.com>
Cc: android-development at qt-project.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Android-development] [Development] Help needed to test Ministro 10.3, needed for Qt 5.4!
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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