zinwalin / sdl2-android-example

Sample application for Android using SDL2 with NDK and Gradle 5

SDL2 Android Example

Read article at blog: https://georgik.rocks/tag/sdl2/

Source code:

• the code is assembled of several pieces available on GitHub

Dependencies

Gradle

The project is compatible with Gradle 5 & 6. For older version based on Gradle 4 and Android Experimental Plugin, check out branch gradle-4-using-android-experimental-plugin.

Android build Tools are set to v28.0.0 in file settings.gradle. Make sure to download those tools via Android Studio.

Libraries

• libSDL2_png - derrived from https://github.com/julienr/libpng-android
  • applied patch - julienr/libpng-android#6
  • renamed to SDL2_png, because of problem with png library in API level 19 - http://georgik.rocks/sdl2-for-android-api-level-19/
• libSDL2_jpeg - derrived from https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/libs/
  • renamed to SDL2_jpeg from jpeg, because of library name collision in Android https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11613040/why-does-jpeg-decompress-create-crash-without-error-message

Assets

• Cuckoo Clock Sound - http://soundbible.com/1261-Cuckoo-Clock.html
• Blazed font - http://www.all-free-download.com/