[Replicant] How to install as system app?

[Wojtek Kosior]

> > The issue is that nowadays, most f-droid applications now in practice
> > depends on a nonfree dependency (the Android SDK).  
> 
> I actually was oblivious about this. May I ask, is there any way to
> create android applications without the Android SDK?

Isn't Android SDK only nonfree when downloaded in binary form from
Google? The sources are free software and have even been packaged for
Debian for some years now[1]. Is there something I am missing?

In fact, I recall already conversating about it on this mailing list :)

Unfortunately, the NDK seems not to be packaged for Debian for some
reason. Perhaps just a matter of effort and demand? The sources repo
does have a proper license[2]. Similarly with Android Emulator, except
it is GPL'd (because it is in fact just a fork of QEMU)

Wojtek

[1] https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/android-sdk
[2] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/ndk.git/+/refs/heads/master/NOTICE
[3] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/qemu/+/refs/heads/master/NOTICE

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On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 07:34:15 -0500
efeizbudak via Replicant <replicant at osuosl.org> wrote:

> > The issue is that nowadays, most f-droid applications now in practice
> > depends on a nonfree dependency (the Android SDK).  
> 
> I actually was oblivious about this. May I ask, is there any way to
> create android applications without the Android SDK?

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