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Re:Our build and release infrastructure, and upcoming updates by mid-kid on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @12:35PM (#31506882)
This is great! I hope some of this work goes towards building a good free android sdk for debian. Last time I checked, the debian sdk was stuck on a really old android version, and the android rebuilds project relied on prebuilt compilers from google (hello ken thompson attack).

Speaking of, how do they deal with java dependencies? Last I checked gradle there was simply no way to tell it to build things from source, instead pulling hundreds of prebuilt java binaries, with native libraries and all.

Re:Our build and release infrastructure, and upcoming updates by pabs3 on Thursday May 26, 2022 @01:14AM (#31514871)
Some of the bits of the Android SDK are slowly getting packaged for Debian:

https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools

Also there is this project for rebuilding the Android SDK from source, but I'm not sure if it is active any more:

https://gitlab.com/android-rebuilds https://web.archive.org/web/20200807233126/http://android-re...

The Bootstrappable Builds folks might have something about Android/Java bootstrap stuff:

https://bootstrappable.org/