Equivalent of QMAKE_BUNDLE_DATA for android?

timday

I have a couple of Qt apps (simple C++ QQuickView hosting a bunch of QML with some C++ plugin components) building and running nicely for OSX and iOS, and including the QML and a bunch of supporting data files (not qrcs) into the app bundles using QMAKE_BUNDLE_DATA in the .pro files. On iOS I can find the location of the app's data files (slightly obscure due to the sandboxing) using QStandardPaths::standardLocations(QStandardPaths::DataLocation), and I have the application cwd to the QML location before it fires up and it all Just Works. (OK ok that does actually sound really hacky now I write it down... ).

Just been taking my first steps with android. I have a .apk file building... but it doesn't contain any of the files referenced in the QMAKE_BUNDLE_DATA locations (so none of the QML making up the bulk of the application either).

Is there some Android equivalent of QMAKE_BUNDLE_DATA ("bundle" apparently being Apple-world terminology), or some other approach supposed to be used? Should I just bite the bullet and force all the my QML and data into QRCs?

I'm using Qt 5.7 and android-ndk-r10e (on Linux, currently) 'cos I saw some messages about later ndk's having some problems.

Hmmm... I can see another problem brewing that one of the apps bundles around 1GByte of data, which apparently takes me into https://developer.android.com/google/play/expansion-files.html territory. But I'd settle for getting a proof of concept working with less data first.

SGaist

Hi,

You can use the assets folder for that. Here you can find how.

Hope it helps

timday

Thanks. That looks promising, but when I try it something seems to be expanding the paths so that if I'm working in in /home/mylogin/project/myapp/, it wants to install files like stuff/myapp.qml to assets/home/mylogin/project/myapp/stuff/myapp.qml rather than just assets/stuff/myapp.qml. Think this is more due my poor knowledge of qmake variable substitution (and when path-like things are expanded?) than anything else; I am actually trying to do

INSTALLS += $$QMAKE_BUNDLE_DATA

as I'm trying to reuse the lists of stuff to be packaged I already have from OSX/iOS builds, rather than rebuild a completely fresh list for android on a different macro.
(It does indeed work as expected if I do a simple
EXTRASTUFF.path=/assets/
EXTRASTUFF.files=../NEWS.md
INSTALLS += EXTRASTUFF
though. But I don't want to do a huge unmaintainable cut-and-paste duplicate of all the stuff I have being added into QMAKE_BUNDLE_DATA currently, but into INSTALL... at least until I understand why the .path get expanded).

For now, found a simpler solution in the form of just putting some cp -r <stuff> deploy/assets/ in my build script between the make install INSTALL_ROOT=deploy and the androiddeployqt.