cocos compile -p android
Python 2.7.10
Building mode: debug
Using Eclipse project : /PROJECTS/COCOS/test/proj.android Ant (Eclipse project) is not supported from Android SDK Tools 25.3.0.
My configuration is:
macOS Sierra 10.12.5
java version “1.8.0_131”
cocos2d-x-3.15.1
android-ndk-r14b
android studio 2.3.2
I readed old post that suggest to downgrade android-sdk but I can’t found old SDK for Mac. Can you help me to compile or downgrade SDK.
I’ve tried different sdk versions because of ant. I think cocos needs better documentation. The existing tutorials are outdated and i lost a day before finding this thread.
But will it regain support? Recently I updated with new SDKManager embedded in Android-Studio and even with downgrading to Android SDK tools revision 25.2.3 or 25.2.3 I get this error during compilation:
[dx] java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/android/dx/command/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
[dx] at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
[dx] at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:800)
[dx] at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
[dx] at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)
[dx] at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)
[dx] at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
[dx] at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
[dx] at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
[dx] at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
[dx] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
[dx] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:412)
[dx] at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
[dx] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
[dx] at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:482)
[dx] Exception in thread "main"
Exactly; buildToolsVersion larger than 23.0.3 requires JDK8, I now successfully use the latest (26.0.0). Also, for me NDK r13b is the highest version that seems to work with Ant projects (proj.android). Plus, the hack of downgrading to platform tools version r25.2.5 is mandatory as well for successful compilation as of now.
I would recomend to intsall/configure on machine cocos2d-x 3.15 and then with it you should be able to compile your ant project event with latest android sdk, I preferring to use NDK 10 it seems have less crashes nad buildtools 25.0.0 , targetsdk 22, minsdk 15
During debugging it isn’t needed, I’m not planning on using dangerous permissions anyways. It shouldn’t be hard to implement on-the-fly permissions though.