Building FBReader using Android Studio and Gradle

Tested on

OS: Windows 7 x64
IDE: Android Studio 3.1 Build #AI-173.4670197, built on March 22, 2018
JRE: 1.8.0_152-release-1024-b02 amd64
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
NDK: 16.1.4479499

Compiling

1. Clone the project (into %userprofile%/AndroidStudioProjects for example)

2. Import the project into Android Studio

3. Perform a project level gradle sync (CTR+SHIFT+A and search for "project sync", double click the first result). You may need to repeat it many times because of download failures. Android Studio may complain about not finding a git.exe in your path, but this will not prevent you from building the project.

4. Install Android SDK Platform API 9 and 14 when prompted

5. FBReader has now been successfully built using Android Studio, but is missing the necessary binaries (.so)

6. Build native binaries by calling ndk-build(.cmd) script. If it's not work you should check the NDK folder and set its path to the script

7. Finally, rebuild the project. FBReader should now run without issue on the emulator/on your device.

Generating the introductory help epubs

This step is optional. If you would like to see the introductory help epub when FBReader starts, execute the following commands in your shell and rebuild the project:

cd FBReaderJ/help
generate.py proto html ../fBReaderJ/src/main/assets/data/intro