Cross-compile application for Android and generate apk from command line

[cristeab]

Hi
I am trying to cross-compile an apk for Android on macOS using Qt5.15.2 with cmake.
While Android NDK has support for cross-compiling with cmake, androiddeployqt is not able to generate correctly the apk file. The custom target used to generate the apk is shown below:

add_custom_target(pack COMMAND ${androiddeployqt_ROOT_PATH}/bin/androiddeployqt
           --input android_deployment_settings.json
           --output ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/android-build
           --android-platform android-21
           --gradle
           --release
           --sign ${STORE_FILENAME} ${STORE_USERNAME}
           --storepass ${STORE_PASSWORD})

But it exists with error because it cannot find zipalign.

I was able to generate the apk, after changing this file
~/Qt/5.15.2/android/lib/cmake/Qt5Core/Qt5AndroidSupport.cmake
such that sdkBuildToolsRevision is defined as
"sdkBuildToolsRevision": "21.1.1",
In this way zipalign is found by androiddeployqt.

However, I still need to configure AndroidManifest.xml.
So my question is how can I specify a custom AndroidManifest.xml file to be used by androiddeployqt ? Previously, with qmake, there was a way to specify a folder where AndroidManifest.xml could be put, ANDROID_PACKAGE_SOURCE_DIR, but I don't know how to do the same in cmake.

thank you
Bogdan

[cristeab]

I have created a bug report here: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-93372