• Androwish for dummies...

    From Bill Waddington@william.waddington@beezmo.com to comp.lang.tcl on Wed Jul 31 15:46:09 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

    Hello all,

    This is extremely embarrassing. A few years back - with the kind help
    of several of you here - I used Androwish to build an apk of my little
    Kanji flash card app.

    https://www.beezmo.com/geezblog/?p=1842

    Newer tablet, higher density display, and I'd like to modify some
    fonts and build it again.

    Thing is, for the life of me I can't remember how I built it. No
    excuse, except that I'm 75 now...

    I've dug around in the online documentation, and I'm overwhelmed.

    Can someone point me to the simplest way to do this? I mean:
    KanjiQuiz.tcl > <one-click Androwish magic> > KanjiQuiz.apk.

    Yours in ignorance - thanks and regards,
    Bill
    --
    William D Waddington

    "Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on
    the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch
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  • From Ashok@apnmbx-public@yahoo.com to comp.lang.tcl on Thu Aug 1 10:25:53 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

    Perhaps Harald's wiki step-by-step may help - https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Example+setup+of+AndroWish+SDK+on+WIndows+10

    On 8/1/2024 4:16 AM, Bill Waddington wrote:
    Hello all,

    This is extremely embarrassing. A few years back - with the kind help
    of several of you here - I used Androwish to build an apk of my little
    Kanji flash card app.

    https://www.beezmo.com/geezblog/?p=1842

    Newer tablet, higher density display, and I'd like to modify some
    fonts and build it again.

    Thing is, for the life of me I can't remember how I built it. No
    excuse, except that I'm 75 now...

    I've dug around in the online documentation, and I'm overwhelmed.

    Can someone point me to the simplest way to do this? I mean:
    KanjiQuiz.tcl > <one-click Androwish magic> > KanjiQuiz.apk.

    Yours in ignorance - thanks and regards,
    Bill

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  • From Bill Waddington@william.waddington@beezmo.com to comp.lang.tcl on Thu Aug 1 08:41:25 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

    That looks perfect! Thank you!

    Bill

    On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 10:25:53 +0530, Ashok <apnmbx-public@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Perhaps Harald's wiki step-by-step may help - >https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Example+setup+of+AndroWish+SDK+on+WIndows+10

    On 8/1/2024 4:16 AM, Bill Waddington wrote:
    Hello all,

    This is extremely embarrassing. A few years back - with the kind help
    of several of you here - I used Androwish to build an apk of my little
    Kanji flash card app.

    https://www.beezmo.com/geezblog/?p=1842

    Newer tablet, higher density display, and I'd like to modify some
    fonts and build it again.

    Thing is, for the life of me I can't remember how I built it. No
    excuse, except that I'm 75 now...

    I've dug around in the online documentation, and I'm overwhelmed.

    Can someone point me to the simplest way to do this? I mean:
    KanjiQuiz.tcl > <one-click Androwish magic> > KanjiQuiz.apk.

    Yours in ignorance - thanks and regards,
    Bill
    --
    William D Waddington

    "Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on
    the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch
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  • From Harald Oehlmann@wortkarg3@yahoo.com to comp.lang.tcl on Thu Aug 1 18:31:26 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

    Well, it is outdated...
    Christian has highly updated AndroWish to work with recent devices with
    newer versions.
    I suppose, newer build systems are required.
    You may look to the androwish.org or ask Maigic-Christian...

    Take care,
    Harald

    Am 01.08.2024 um 17:41 schrieb Bill Waddington:
    That looks perfect! Thank you!

    Bill

    On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 10:25:53 +0530, Ashok <apnmbx-public@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Perhaps Harald's wiki step-by-step may help -
    https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Example+setup+of+AndroWish+SDK+on+WIndows+10 >>
    On 8/1/2024 4:16 AM, Bill Waddington wrote:
    Hello all,

    This is extremely embarrassing. A few years back - with the kind help
    of several of you here - I used Androwish to build an apk of my little
    Kanji flash card app.

    https://www.beezmo.com/geezblog/?p=1842

    Newer tablet, higher density display, and I'd like to modify some
    fonts and build it again.

    Thing is, for the life of me I can't remember how I built it. No
    excuse, except that I'm 75 now...

    I've dug around in the online documentation, and I'm overwhelmed.

    Can someone point me to the simplest way to do this? I mean:
    KanjiQuiz.tcl > <one-click Androwish magic> > KanjiQuiz.apk.

    Yours in ignorance - thanks and regards,
    Bill

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  • From Bill Waddington@william.waddington@beezmo.com to comp.lang.tcl on Thu Aug 1 15:05:59 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl


    Working my way through that step-by-step. Thanks.

    Missing the obvious I think. The instructions:

    ..................................................
    Android command line tools for windows

    "tools" folder is: sdk-tools-windows-4333796.zip from: https://developer.android.com/studio

    Unzip to c:\android (so we get a folder c:\android\tools) ..................................................

    I find and install android studio, but don't see where to download the
    named zip file. Looking in SDK tools. Or is it somewhere in the
    installed studio?

    Sorry to be such a dumb ***. Grateful for any help, but fair warning,
    probaly won't be the last time.

    Bill

    On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 10:25:53 +0530, Ashok <apnmbx-public@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Perhaps Harald's wiki step-by-step may help - >https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Example+setup+of+AndroWish+SDK+on+WIndows+10

    On 8/1/2024 4:16 AM, Bill Waddington wrote:
    Hello all,

    This is extremely embarrassing. A few years back - with the kind help
    of several of you here - I used Androwish to build an apk of my little
    Kanji flash card app.

    https://www.beezmo.com/geezblog/?p=1842

    Newer tablet, higher density display, and I'd like to modify some
    fonts and build it again.

    Thing is, for the life of me I can't remember how I built it. No
    excuse, except that I'm 75 now...

    I've dug around in the online documentation, and I'm overwhelmed.

    Can someone point me to the simplest way to do this? I mean:
    KanjiQuiz.tcl > <one-click Androwish magic> > KanjiQuiz.apk.

    Yours in ignorance - thanks and regards,
    Bill
    --
    William D Waddington

    "Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on
    the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch
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  • From Harald Oehlmann@wortkarg3@yahoo.com to comp.lang.tcl on Fri Aug 2 14:09:14 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

    On the exact page, you have the point "Only command line tools".
    But they are contained in the studio.

    Thake care,
    Harald


    Am 02.08.2024 um 00:05 schrieb Bill Waddington:

    Working my way through that step-by-step. Thanks.

    Missing the obvious I think. The instructions:

    ..................................................
    Android command line tools for windows

    "tools" folder is: sdk-tools-windows-4333796.zip from: https://developer.android.com/studio

    Unzip to c:\android (so we get a folder c:\android\tools) ..................................................

    I find and install android studio, but don't see where to download the
    named zip file. Looking in SDK tools. Or is it somewhere in the
    installed studio?

    Sorry to be such a dumb ***. Grateful for any help, but fair warning, probaly won't be the last time.

    Bill

    On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 10:25:53 +0530, Ashok <apnmbx-public@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Perhaps Harald's wiki step-by-step may help -
    https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Example+setup+of+AndroWish+SDK+on+WIndows+10 >>
    On 8/1/2024 4:16 AM, Bill Waddington wrote:
    Hello all,

    This is extremely embarrassing. A few years back - with the kind help
    of several of you here - I used Androwish to build an apk of my little
    Kanji flash card app.

    https://www.beezmo.com/geezblog/?p=1842

    Newer tablet, higher density display, and I'd like to modify some
    fonts and build it again.

    Thing is, for the life of me I can't remember how I built it. No
    excuse, except that I'm 75 now...

    I've dug around in the online documentation, and I'm overwhelmed.

    Can someone point me to the simplest way to do this? I mean:
    KanjiQuiz.tcl > <one-click Androwish magic> > KanjiQuiz.apk.

    Yours in ignorance - thanks and regards,
    Bill

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  • From Bill Waddington@william.waddington@beezmo.com to comp.lang.tcl on Tue Aug 6 11:44:21 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

    Indeed, it was right there under my elderly nose.

    Following your gide (I hope, I've re-read it 100 times...) I run bones
    and get all the way to the build. And fail.

    "
    A problem occurred configuring root project 'AndroWishApp'.
    The SDK directory 'C:\android\AWSDK\C:UsersWilliam D WaddingtonAppDataLocalAndroidSdk' does not exist.
    "

    That strange path seems to be telling me I've mis-configured things.
    An (environment) variable somewhere perhaps.

    I had previously installed Android Studio - now uninstalled - and
    wonder if there's a config variable left over somewhere. Or more
    likely I've just missed something in the suggested configuration.

    Look familiar to anyone?

    Thanks again,
    Bill

    On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 14:09:14 +0200, Harald Oehlmann
    <wortkarg3@yahoo.com> wrote:

    On the exact page, you have the point "Only command line tools".
    But they are contained in the studio.

    Thake care,
    Harald


    Am 02.08.2024 um 00:05 schrieb Bill Waddington:

    Working my way through that step-by-step. Thanks.

    Missing the obvious I think. The instructions:

    ..................................................
    Android command line tools for windows

    "tools" folder is: sdk-tools-windows-4333796.zip from:
    https://developer.android.com/studio

    Unzip to c:\android (so we get a folder c:\android\tools)
    ..................................................

    I find and install android studio, but don't see where to download the
    named zip file. Looking in SDK tools. Or is it somewhere in the
    installed studio?

    Sorry to be such a dumb ***. Grateful for any help, but fair warning,
    probaly won't be the last time.

    Bill

    On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 10:25:53 +0530, Ashok <apnmbx-public@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Perhaps Harald's wiki step-by-step may help -
    https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Example+setup+of+AndroWish+SDK+on+WIndows+10 >>>
    On 8/1/2024 4:16 AM, Bill Waddington wrote:
    Hello all,

    This is extremely embarrassing. A few years back - with the kind help
    of several of you here - I used Androwish to build an apk of my little >>>> Kanji flash card app.

    https://www.beezmo.com/geezblog/?p=1842

    Newer tablet, higher density display, and I'd like to modify some
    fonts and build it again.

    Thing is, for the life of me I can't remember how I built it. No
    excuse, except that I'm 75 now...

    I've dug around in the online documentation, and I'm overwhelmed.

    Can someone point me to the simplest way to do this? I mean:
    KanjiQuiz.tcl > <one-click Androwish magic> > KanjiQuiz.apk.

    Yours in ignorance - thanks and regards,
    Bill
    --
    William D Waddington

    "Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on
    the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch
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  • From Helmut Giese@hgiese@ratiosoft.com to comp.lang.tcl on Tue Aug 6 21:56:15 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

    Hi Bill,
    "
    A problem occurred configuring root project 'AndroWishApp'.
    The SDK directory 'C:\android\AWSDK\C:UsersWilliam D WaddingtonAppDataLocalAndroidSdk' does not exist.
    "
    not knowing anything about Androwish, but the message looks extremely suspicious:
    It is looking for a directory with THIS name? With twice a 'C:' in it?
    The part 'C:UsersWilliam D WaddingtonAppDataLocal' looks to me like
    a user dir - without the backslashes - like
    C:\Users\William D Waddington\AppData\Local
    Where and how did you use the above dir?
    HTH
    Helmut
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  • From Bill Waddington@william.waddington@beezmo.com to comp.lang.tcl on Tue Aug 6 13:10:47 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

    That ... AppData ... dir does exist.

    Looks like it was created a year ago when I installed Android Studio.

    No idea why it's getting concatenated with C:android... and without
    the back slashes.

    Still suspect some config variable somewher.

    Thanks

    On Tue, 06 Aug 2024 21:56:15 +0200, Helmut Giese
    <hgiese@ratiosoft.com> wrote:

    Hi Bill,
    "
    A problem occurred configuring root project 'AndroWishApp'.
    The SDK directory 'C:\android\AWSDK\C:UsersWilliam D WaddingtonAppDataLocalAndroidSdk' does not exist.
    "
    not knowing anything about Androwish, but the message looks extremely >suspicious:
    It is looking for a directory with THIS name? With twice a 'C:' in it?
    The part 'C:UsersWilliam D WaddingtonAppDataLocal' looks to me like
    a user dir - without the backslashes - like
    C:\Users\William D Waddington\AppData\Local
    Where and how did you use the above dir?
    HTH
    Helmut
    --
    William D Waddington

    "Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on
    the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch
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  • From Helmut Giese@hgiese@ratiosoft.com to comp.lang.tcl on Tue Aug 6 22:46:25 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

    That ... AppData ... dir does exist.

    Looks like it was created a year ago when I installed Android Studio.
    Ok. And you said Android Studio is now uninstalled. But somehow during
    the configuration you initiated it must somehow crept in.
    So the next question is: Exactly how did you call 'configure'?
    Helmut
    PS: Your answer to this question is not for me but for the next person
    who chimes in. I am an absolute layman as far as 'configure' is
    concerned, so I'm out - and besides: it's bed time for me.
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  • From Bill Waddington@william.waddington@beezmo.com to comp.lang.tcl on Thu Aug 8 11:50:08 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

    That strangeness - the crufft appended - is in local.properties. No
    idea how it got there. Trying a manual edit, just blindly trying
    things...


    On Tue, 06 Aug 2024 22:46:25 +0200, Helmut Giese
    <hgiese@ratiosoft.com> wrote:

    That ... AppData ... dir does exist.

    Looks like it was created a year ago when I installed Android Studio.
    Ok. And you said Android Studio is now uninstalled. But somehow during
    the configuration you initiated it must somehow crept in.
    So the next question is: Exactly how did you call 'configure'?
    Helmut
    PS: Your answer to this question is not for me but for the next person
    who chimes in. I am an absolute layman as far as 'configure' is
    concerned, so I'm out - and besides: it's bed time for me.
    --
    William D Waddington

    "Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on
    the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch
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  • From Bill Waddington@william.waddington@beezmo.com to comp.lang.tcl on Thu Aug 8 13:21:29 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

    Now I'm in a spot where sdkmanager complains if JAVA is too old,
    Gradle complains if it's too new.

    I'm clearly not cut out for this :(

    On Thu, 08 Aug 2024 11:50:08 -0700, Bill Waddington <william.waddington@beezmo.com> wrote:

    That strangeness - the crufft appended - is in local.properties. No
    idea how it got there. Trying a manual edit, just blindly trying
    things...


    On Tue, 06 Aug 2024 22:46:25 +0200, Helmut Giese
    <hgiese@ratiosoft.com> wrote:

    That ... AppData ... dir does exist.

    Looks like it was created a year ago when I installed Android Studio.
    Ok. And you said Android Studio is now uninstalled. But somehow during
    the configuration you initiated it must somehow crept in.
    So the next question is: Exactly how did you call 'configure'?
    Helmut
    PS: Your answer to this question is not for me but for the next person
    who chimes in. I am an absolute layman as far as 'configure' is
    concerned, so I'm out - and besides: it's bed time for me.
    --
    William D Waddington

    "Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on
    the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch
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  • From Bill Waddington@william.waddington@beezmo.com to comp.lang.tcl on Fri Aug 9 08:22:48 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

    Hey all,

    I've given up. Just can't deal with the web of dependencies and my
    own ignorance.

    Thought I'd try the Androwish apk, and just source my code on the
    tablet. Androwish can't browse. Looks like Android 12 has everything
    so walled off it isn't possible. Rats.

    thanks,
    Bill

    On Thu, 08 Aug 2024 13:21:29 -0700, Bill Waddington <william.waddington@beezmo.com> wrote:

    Now I'm in a spot where sdkmanager complains if JAVA is too old,
    Gradle complains if it's too new.

    I'm clearly not cut out for this :(

    On Thu, 08 Aug 2024 11:50:08 -0700, Bill Waddington ><william.waddington@beezmo.com> wrote:

    That strangeness - the crufft appended - is in local.properties. No
    idea how it got there. Trying a manual edit, just blindly trying
    things...


    On Tue, 06 Aug 2024 22:46:25 +0200, Helmut Giese
    <hgiese@ratiosoft.com> wrote:

    That ... AppData ... dir does exist.

    Looks like it was created a year ago when I installed Android Studio. >>>Ok. And you said Android Studio is now uninstalled. But somehow during >>>the configuration you initiated it must somehow crept in.
    So the next question is: Exactly how did you call 'configure'?
    Helmut
    PS: Your answer to this question is not for me but for the next person >>>who chimes in. I am an absolute layman as far as 'configure' is >>>concerned, so I'm out - and besides: it's bed time for me.
    --
    William D Waddington

    "Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on
    the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch
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  • From Bill Waddington@william.waddington@beezmo.com to comp.lang.tcl on Sun Aug 25 10:22:54 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

    Hi again,

    Thought I'd try a reverse approach: start with bones and fix the
    errors as they came up.

    First was Java. Fixed that. Then it wanted the Android studio
    command line tools. Extracted the zip to C:\android\ASSDK. Set
    ANDROID_HOME to that path. (could have used a nicer name....)

    Now I'm back to a similar garbled path:

    "
    Starting a Gradle Daemon, 2 incompatible and 1 stopped Daemons could
    not be reused, use --status for details

    FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

    * What went wrong:
    A problem occurred configuring root project 'AndroWishApp'.
    The SDK directory 'C:\android\AWSDK\C:androidASSDK' does not exist.
    "

    Contatenating a garbled version of ANDROID_HOME with the Androwish SDK
    path.

    Really grateful for any suggestions.

    Bill


    On Tue, 06 Aug 2024 21:56:15 +0200, Helmut Giese
    <hgiese@ratiosoft.com> wrote:

    Hi Bill,
    "
    A problem occurred configuring root project 'AndroWishApp'.
    The SDK directory 'C:\android\AWSDK\C:UsersWilliam D WaddingtonAppDataLocalAndroidSdk' does not exist.
    "
    not knowing anything about Androwish, but the message looks extremely >suspicious:
    It is looking for a directory with THIS name? With twice a 'C:' in it?
    The part 'C:UsersWilliam D WaddingtonAppDataLocal' looks to me like
    a user dir - without the backslashes - like
    C:\Users\William D Waddington\AppData\Local
    Where and how did you use the above dir?
    HTH
    Helmut
    --
    William D Waddington

    "Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on
    the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch
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