Working for Android

NOTE: For alternative instructions, check Working for Android (on macOS) and Working for Android (on Linux)

Installing Android required tools

Android requires a set of tools to do all the build process to generate a .APK game.

1. Open JDK

You can just download the JDK from here and decompress it in a directory, raylib Makefile.Android scripts looks for it on C:\open-jdk.

2. Android SDK

Actually, Android SDK is composed by a series of tools, you can install everything in a go just downloading Android Studio and installing the full package.

Alternatively, you can just install the required files manually. To do that, start downloading Command line tools package, found at the end of this page.

• Decompress downloaded sdk-tools-... file into a folder named android-sdk. One of the included tools is the sdkmanager, a command line utility to install required packages.
• From command line, navigate to android-sdk/tools/bin and execute the following commands:

sdkmanager --update
sdkmanager --list
sdkmanager --install build-tools;29.0.3
sdkmanager --install platform-tools
sdkmanager --install platforms;android-28
sdkmanager --install extras;google;usb_driver

With those commands you're installing all required tools. It includes: tools, build-tools, platform-tools, platforms\android-28 api level and also extras\google\usb_driver (that you need to install to connect to your device).

3. Android NDK

To develop with raylib in C, we need to install the Android Native Development Kit. You can download it from here. Android NDK includes support files for multiple Android APIs and multiple architectures. raylib scripts expect to use NDK r21 and found it available on C:\android-ndk-r21.

Compiling raylib source code

To compile raylib sources, just navigate from command line to folder raylib/src/ and execute Makefile with:

mingw32-make PLATFORM=PLATFORM_ANDROID

NOTE: libraylib.a will be generated in raylib/src directory by default.

WARNING: Maybe your Android device uses a 64bit CPU but be careful, installed Android OS could still be 32bit, not allowing 64bit apps.

Compiling a raylib game for Android (using an example project template)

Step 1. To build an APK, navigate to folder raylib/template/simple_game/ and edit Makefile.Android. Replace these settings with yours where apropriate:

ANDROID_ARCH           ?= ARM
ANDROID_API_VERSION     = 28

JAVA_HOME              ?= C:/open-jdk
ANDROID_HOME            = C:/android-sdk
ANDROID_TOOLCHAIN       = C:/android-ndk-r21/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/windows-x86_64
ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS     = $(ANDROID_HOME)/build-tools/29.0.3
ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS  = $(ANDROID_HOME)/platform-tools

Then build the apk with:

mingw32-make PLATFORM=PLATFORM_ANDROID

Step 2: To install the APK into connected device (previously intalled drivers and activated USB debug mode on device):

%ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS%\adb install simple_game.apk

Step 4: To view log output from device:

%ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS%\adb logcat -c
%ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS%\adb -d  logcat raylib:V *:S

If you have any doubt, just let me know.