Request recommendations of Linux distros for Qt5 and Qt Android development?

[EdOfTheMountain]

Can someone recommend a Linux distro for Qt5 and Android development?

The reason I am looking is I am currently having some compiler environment difficulties under OSX 10.9.4. While Linux may not solve these problems I thought I might try.

Thanks,

-Ed

[SGaist]

Hi,

Debian/Ubuntu/Gentoo are generally good. Don't forget to install the OpenGL dev package.

[sierdzio]

IMO the best choice for productivity and ease of use is Kubuntu.

Definitely, if you want to avoid dependency problems, go for a distro from Debian or *buntu family, as most of the guides and wiki pages are written primarily for them.

[Sanchir Kartiev]

OpenSUSE - I guess, this is will be a good variant

[EdOfTheMountain]

Thank you all.

The *buntu family sounds like good advice since most guides and wiki pages are written for them.

Kubuntu sounds worth a try. Thanks for the tip!

[EdOfTheMountain]

Success!! I have a Qt 5.3.1 "hello world" widget app finally running on an Android simulator.

In summary, do not bother with developing under Ubuntu 64-bit. I expect it could be made to work but not worth the effort to me.

Qt Android Development Environment:

• Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 32-bit ( I failed using 64-bit Ubuntu )
• Qt 5.3.1
• JDK: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-i386 ( Do not use Java 7 )
• SDK: /home/edward/android/adt-bundle-linux-x86-20140702/sdk
• NDK: /home/edward/android/android-ndk-r10

After installing all package updates I added one additional SDK.

Eclipse->Android SDK Manager:

• Android 3.2 (API 13)->SDK Platform Installed

Android simulators are a pain. The default settings often will not work. They are slow and cumbersome.

Simulator Settings;

• AVD: nexus7-api-20armeabi-v7a
  ** Target: Android 4.4W - API Level 20
  ** Android Wear ARM (aremabi-v7a)
  
  Hardware keyboard
  
  ** Skin: No Skin
  ** RAM: 1024 ( If I made any bigger the simulator would not run )
  ** VM Heap: 32
  ** Internal Storage: 200 MiB
  ** SD Card: Size: 1024 MiB
  ** Enmlation Options: (none)

I thought I would try Qt 5.3.1 once again. This time when I installed, I did not try selecting Android x86 or Android armv5 as doing so seemed to break the Qt 5.3.1 installer under Ubuntu 64-bit. This may have been due to a missing 32-bit dependency under Ubuntu 64-bit. Anyway all I wanted was the default gcc and Android armv7 anyway

• qt-opensource-linux-x86-android-5.3.1.run

I no longer needed to manually add the following build environment variable fro my Qt project:

• ANDROID_TARGET_ARCH

There is nothing Android specific in my Qt project file. I also removed the INCLUDEPATH and LIBS from my Qt project file:
@
#INCLUDEPATH += $$(ANDROID_NDK_ROOT)/sources/cxx-stl/gnu-libstdc++/$$(ANDROID_NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION)/libs/armeabi-v7a/include
#LIBS += -L$$(ANDROID_NDK_ROOT)/sources/cxx-stl/gnu-libstdc++/$$(ANDROID_NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION)/libs/armeabi
@

I hope this may help some other Android newbie.

-Ed

[sierdzio]

Hm, I am running Android apps from Ubuntu 14.04 without any problems... the SDK comes in 64b flavor, and 64b OpenJDK (7 in my case) works well, too.

[p3c0]

Yes me too. Same configuration as that of sierdzio's. No problem at all.

[claudiom]

I m using Chakra Linux and all works ;-)

[AliasCummins]

@sierdzio Upvoting this 5 years later because it's such good advice!