[Alchete]

As an Android developer, I've been curious about this...

With all the confusion and difficulty in accessing the xmbc.log file, which has required Wiki articles and incurred countless posts and hours of frustration (I was never successful in retrieving mine from my Nexus 7) ------

Why doesn't XBMC Android just ask for the external file permission "android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" and write it to the user partition, so it can be retrieved with any file browser or USB mount?

[davilla]

As an Android developer, why don't you submit a patch and PR to change the location of xbmc.log, That's the sure way to make this happen

[Alchete]

As an Android developer, why don't you submit a patch and PR to change the location of xbmc.log, That's the sure way to make this happen

Well, if the team is open to such a patch, I'd be happy to give back to the community.

It would make the log collecting task trivial on the user-side, which would accelerate feedback and improve the product for everyone.

However, writing an Android app and patching someone else's project on Github are two entirely different things. I've never patched a Github project.

Davilla, do you have a resource you could point me to regarding which trunk to build, and how to submit such a patch? I'm willing to learn.

Cheers,
Alchete

[davilla]

The only branch to build is mainline (ie. master), patches on released versions are generally ignored. You fork (via github) then when ready issue a PR (pull request) against xbmc mainline. Github takes care of the details.

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pulls

[Ned Scott]

I'm not a developer myself, but zag posted this a little bit ago, and will likely help: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=160103

[Alchete]

Thank you guys. I'm trying to compile the xbmc-deps now.

The README files in the source code no longer mention the Crystax NDK. Is it still required, or does the Android NDK now suffice?

Also, can I use the level 17 SDK (if I set the configure switches), or is SDK-14 required?

[davilla]

Android NDK