= Ariba on Android = 

Running Ariba on Android platforms using the NDK is quite easy. We have ported the Ariba source accordingly so it currently works directly with the trunk version. Further we provide a set of scripts that simplfy set up of the NDK, patches to the SDK, and compiling scripts.

Make sure you have ruby installed, it is required by the droid-wrapper scripts that we use.

{{{
mkdir ariba-android
cd ariba-android
svn co https://i72projekte.tm.uka.de/SpoVNet-KA/entwicklung/ariba/trunk/  ./ariba
svn co https://i72projekte.tm.uka.de/SpoVNet-KA/entwicklung/tools/android ./toolchain
cd toolchain
./get-ndk.sh
cd ../ariba
./bootstrap
../toolchain/bootstrap_ariba_libs
../toolchain/make_ariba
}}}

You can find a deploy.sh script in the {{{toolchain/}}} folder together a description of [http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html adb] required to transfer files using USB to the mobile device. On the mobile device, use a program as [ttps://market.android.com/details?id=org.connectbot ConnectBot] which gives you a shell on the device to run the executable.

The runtime environment is not the managed Java environment, but it runs directly on the device using the Android [http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html NDK]. To develop GUI-based apps you have to build a normal Java Android App and use inter process communication, e.g. using JNI to communicate with the Ariba-based application, see the [http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/overview.html#samples NDK sample applications].