Provide custom path for android SDK to buildozer

[udiboy1209]

I frequently use Android Studio for development, and have a regularly updated collection of SDKs of different android versions in a specific directory.

I don't want buildozer to keep its own set of SDKs separately under ~/.buildozer/

Is there any global configuration I can edit to specify this to buildozer?

Currently using the latest stable version from pip : 0.30

[pythonic64]

There is in buildozer.spec file:
https://github.com/kivy/buildozer/blob/master/buildozer/default.spec#L84

Set path to android sdk directory and remove "#"

[dessant]

@pythonic64 thanks for the quick solution. 👍

[udiboy1209]

Is there a global buildozer.spec so I dont have to do it for every project? I guess I could update default.spec in the source, but that would not allow me to change the location later. I'd have to change the spec file for every project I build.

P.S. from what I understand about default.spec, it is used to generate a buildozer.spec when buildozer init is run. But I may be wrong here!

[akshayaurora]

@udiboy1209 use symlinks; symlink your android ndk and sdks folder to where bulldozer expects them to be in ~/.buildozer/...

[inclement]

You can set it globally with the APP_ANDROID_SDK_PATH and APP_ANDROID_NDK_PATH environment variables. It's actually possible to set any buildozer.spec token this way - note that the initial APP refers to the section of the spec file, [app].

[udiboy1209]

@akshayaurora and @inclement thanks for the nice hack! Although I would like to implement a global config file, probably situated in ~/.buildozer/global.spec. Just seems better.

I'll have to merge configs from both global.spec and the local buildozer.spec giving the latter more priority, right? I found the project uses ConfigParser. Am I in the right direction?

[udiboy1209]

@inclement I just understood what you were trying to say after looking at set_config_token_fron_env().

So I guess a global file isn't needed then! Thanks everyone for your help 😄