Hello Everyone,

I have a six questions about compiling to android. I tried figuring it out myself, but there's a few things I don't understand.

1. What's the difference between 'android' and 'android-native' and which would I use when compiling. I've tried both and both give different outputs. Or is there another android variant that I should be using, that I'm not aware of?

2. What do I need for compiling to android? Do I need the JDK? SDK, JVM. I tried installing them but I still wasn't able to get anywhere when I used Eclipse.

3. Which IDE do I use? I used both intellij and Eclipse but I wasn't able to get the project to compile/debug it. The run/debug buttons were not clickable. Is Android Studio an option? when I complied for android, a project-android-intilij folder shows up but when I opened with intilij, I wasn't able to do anything with it in terms of running/debugging it.

4. How would I open the project? I tried opening and importing but both options didn't let me run/debug the program in either of the IDE's I used.

5. Does 'android --compile' make an APK? I know 'windows --compile' makes a .exe but I didn't find an APK when I used the compile tag on android?

6. How do I use touch input?

These are the six questions I have about compiling to android. I'm working on a really simple program, a four button beat pad but I can't get android to compile, or if I am, I don't know how to get it to a .apk file. And I don't know how to work with touch input.

Thank you for reading this and for any answers anyone can provide,

Sincerely,
Anguel Esperanza

Hi!

1. android creates a Java based project, android-native creates a C++ based project. android-native is a little more mature and probably a little faster. android compiles faster and makes it easier to integrate regular Android libraries.
2. Android Studio. Open the project in build/android/ProjectName (for android) or build/android-native-build/ProjectName (for android-native)
3. project-android-intellij is a Haxe-IntelliJ project. You can use that if you want to develop in IntelliJ. To compile for Android, see 2.
4. See 2.
5. No, --compile is not yet implemented for Android. But I think if everything is setup correctly you can cd into build/android/ProjectName and run gradle build
6. See http://api.kha.technology/kha/input/Surface.html

@Robert Hello again and thank you so much. After following what you said and installing the proper files that Android Studio needed, I got it all working with a new project, and it debugs to android. Now I'm even closer to finishing my project. Thank you for the help.