Bug 481689

Summary:	Use JDT compiler to compile Java code for Android
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Kaloyan Raev <kaloyan>
Component:	Thym	Assignee:	Gorkem Ercan <gorkem.ercan>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT_ECLIPSE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	gorkem.ercan
Version:	unspecified	Keywords:	usability
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
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Description Kaloyan Raev

2015-11-09 04:32:18 EST

Currently, running a mobile app on Android Emulator/Device, or exporting it as an Android application, requires JDK to be installed and the JAVA_HOME environment variable to be set to the JDK installation folder.

If the above requirements are not met then the action will fail with the following error in the executed Ant script:

BUILD FAILED
/home/raev/android-sdks/tools/ant/build.xml:716: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/home/raev/android-sdks/tools/ant/build.xml:730: Unable to find a javac compiler;
com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath.
Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK.
It is currently set to "/home/raev/Zend/ZendStudio 13.0.1/jre"

Non-java developers are puzzled by this message and don't really understand what is expected by them.

Is it possible to compile the Java code using the JDT compiler instead of using the javac tool (requiring a JDT installation)?

Comment 1 Gorkem Ercan

2015-11-09 05:40:47 EST

Android builds are delegated to the build infrastructure on the android SDK. We have very limited control in them. Android has actually started to use gradle we have not yet caught up with that. 

We also plan to move to use Cordova CLI tools to manage plugins and cordova builds https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=480148

Comment 2 Gorkem Ercan

2016-01-17 20:06:55 EST

Closing, this needs to be supported on Android build system