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Android builder

This is the image for building and testing Android applications. It contains Android SDK.

How to update android-builder image#

  1. Build the image to test your changes

Run Build android-builder (internal) teamcity configuration.
You will see the tag in stdout:

Published the image <docker registry>/android/builder:<tag>

If you need to test locally before publishing:

# Docker registry to further publishing
export DOCKER_REGISTRY=...
# DockerHub credentials (optional)
export DOCKER_HUB_USERNAME=...
export DOCKER_HUB_PASSWORD=...
cd ci/docker
./build.sh <directory with Dockerfile>

You will see in stdout: 

Image <image id> tagged as <docker registry>/android/image-builder:<tag>

Continue to further publishing:

# Docker registry to publish
export DOCKER_REGISTRY=...
export DOCKER_REGISTRY_USERNAME=...
export DOCKER_REGISTRY_PASSWORD=...
# DockerHub credentials (optional)
export DOCKER_HUB_USERNAME=...
export DOCKER_HUB_PASSWORD=...
cd ci/docker
./publish.sh <directory with Dockerfile>

You will see in stdout:

Published the image <docker registry>/android/builder:<tag>
  1. Update image hash in IMAGE_ANDROID_BUILDER variable in ci shell scripts:
    • In GitHub repo: ci/_environment.sh
    • In internal avito repository: ci/_main.sh
  2. Check this images is working. At least, run ci/local_check.sh.
  3. Make PR with a new image.

How to prepare ndk archive#

  1. Download ndk for linux
  2. If you are using MacOS make sure you are working in volume with case-sensitive file system. Create new volume using "Disk Utility" and copy archive there if you don't have case-sensitive volume.
  3. Unpack zip archive using unzip <zip file> command in terminal to verify that archive is fully unpacked. Do not use double-click. If you see replace prompt, check previous step.
  4. Change file structure to ndk/<version>/<ndk files>
  5. Create zip archive using zip tool with -ry9 flags

For example for 25.2.9519653 do: 

unzip android-ndk-r25c-linux.zip;
mv android-ndk-r25c 25.2.9519653;
mkdir ndk;
mv 25.2.9519653 ndk/25.2.9519653;
zip -ry9 ndk-linux-25_2_9519653.zip ndk;