Packaging for Android
The aim of this section is to generate a standalone APK file for the gallery-mobile
application. Packaging and deploying an application for Android require multiple steps:
- Configure the Android build details.
- Generate a keystore and a certificate.
- Customize the Android manifest from a template.
- Create a script to automate the packaging.
You can do most of the tasks directly from Qt Creator. Under the hood, the Qt tool, androiddeployqt
, is called to generate the APK file. Go to Projects | Android for armeabi-v7a | Build Steps. You should see a special build step: Build Android APK. The details look like the following screenshot:
The first thing to do is to select which Android API level you want to use to generate the Application ...
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