[BRLTTY] Brlapi on Android

[Peter Lecky]

Hello,

No, I tested on Android 14, brltty works and is usable. You can install 
it from google play, so documentation is correct in this.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.a11y.brltty.android&hl=en_US

I played with brlapi in Android and at least older releases are usable 
with that simple tweak in build system which i mentioned.

My change causes, that libraries for all supported systems are generated 
without version suffix, which is not good, we need it only for  Android 
libraries, i Did it only to test whether it will work with correctly 
named libs.

With best

Peter

On 4. 4. 2024 16:37, cstrobel crosslink.net wrote:
> Peter:
>       I thought in one of your previous messages you said you were 
> trying to use Android 7.  In the documentation it says Android 8 is 
> required.  I tried to install BRLTTY on Android 9 last fall, but I 
> never got it to work, although I can't remember exactly what error I 
> got.  I'm not sure how you would install it in a virtual machine, but 
> Quick EMU does have Android 7, 8, and 9.  I don't think BRLTTY is in 
> the Playstore like the documentation says.
> Maybe I could try another experiment, but I would probably have to use 
> Android 9.
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* BRLTTY <brltty-bounces at brltty.app> on behalf of Peter Lecky 
> <peter.lecky at stopka.sk>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 3, 2024 5:40 AM
> *To:* brltty at brltty.app <brltty at brltty.app>
> *Subject:* Re: [BRLTTY] Brlapi on Android
> Good morning,
>
> I made some progress with this, but still do not have working library,
> so please, if someone has any idea what to do, then let me know.
>
> I made my own build from latest source (master branch). I changed
> common.mk, to have libraries without version suffix. More concretely, i
> changed line
>
> API_LIB_VERSIONED = $(API_LIB).$(API_VERSION)
>
> to
>
> API_LIB_VERSIONED = $(API_LIB)
>
> And then
>
> make clean
>
> cfg-android -a arm64-v8a
>
> make
>
> I manually added resulting libraries and jar archive to my project and
> successfully compiled.
>
> I can now properly load library, but with another kind of crash.
>
> Testing with this code in onclick method on one button:
>
> ConnectionBase cb=null;
>
> try {
>      cb=new ConnectionBase(new ConnectionSettings());
>      Shares.I.mTTS.say((cb==null)?"null":"have 
> instance"+cb.getModelIdentifier());
> }catch(Exception e) {}
> And it crashes whole virtual machine with this in log (removing 
> timestamp to make it readable ;)):
>   AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
>   AndroidRuntime: Process: xx.xx.xx, PID: 13299
>   AndroidRuntime: connect: No such file or directory
>   AndroidRuntime:        at 
> org.a11y.brlapi.ConnectionBase.openConnection(Native Method)
>   AndroidRuntime:        at 
> org.a11y.brlapi.ConnectionBase.<init>(ConnectionBase.java:43)
>   AndroidRuntime:        at 
> xx.xx.xx.UIMainScreen.onBatteryClick(UIMainScreen.java:497)
> Please, let me know if someone has any ideas
> Thank you
> Peter
>
> On 28. 3. 2024 14:07, Peter Lecky wrote:
> > Good afternoon to all,
> >
> > I am trying to use brlapi library for android in the project. I found
> > this page:
> >
> > https://brltty.app/android.html <https://brltty.app/android.html>
> >
> > There is a older build of brlapi library which i am trying to use. I
> > used repository mentioned on that page and successfully compiled my
> > project, but my app crashes during initialization of the library with
> > this error:
> >
> >>  AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
> >>  AndroidRuntime: Process: xxx.xxx.xxx, PID: 29870
> >>  AndroidRuntime: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: dlopen failed:
> >> library "libbrlapi.so.0.8" not found: needed by
> >> 
> /data/app/~~YB-_ApEJ6BKmHFGYgcO1CQ==/xxx.xxx.xxx-YTdxhFskgX0ZhCxZbEwOhw==/base.apk!/lib/arm64-v8a/libbrlapi_java.so
> >> in namespace clns-5
> >>  AndroidRuntime:     at
> >> java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:1082)
> >>  AndroidRuntime:     at
> >> java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:1003)
> > It seems that libbrlapi_java library tryes to load libbrlapi.so with
> > version suffix (initialization crashes because file "libbrlapi.so.0.8"
> > is missing) but compiled apk contains libbrlapi.so without version
> > suffix.
> >
> > I tryed to fetch all required files and added libs manually. Tryed to
> > rename brlapi.so to brlapi.so.0.8, but it seems that the package
> > manager does not support fformats other than something.so.
> >
> > Can someone help please?
> >
> > With best and thanks
> >
> > Peter
> >
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