From c862be08158f502c42752f025d5cc6384285c688 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Holesovsky Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:51:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] android: Dump my debugging notes to the readme's. Change-Id: I8f91e73fe5df5dfef054df80d43be3c74d01388b --- README.Android | 5 +++++ README.cross | 13 +++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.Android b/README.Android index 2fe09e2b1a3e..9ae7fd3ec04f 100644 --- a/README.Android +++ b/README.Android @@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ know. But don't seem to be necessary on a real device anyway? * Debugging + Install the .apk to the device, start the application, and: + + cd android/experimental/LOAndroid3 + /ndk-gdb --adb=/platform-tools/adb + Some versions of the NDK had a broken gdb in the way that it can see symbols only for shlibs that were already loaded when the debuggee was attached, so you need to carefully guess where to put: diff --git a/README.cross b/README.cross index 451751d34621..0c6a7773229c 100644 --- a/README.cross +++ b/README.cross @@ -375,6 +375,19 @@ an "adb logcat" running in another window. To debug, do manually what "make run" would do and when the app has started, run ndk-gdb. +You can also do that manually; to install: + + /platform-tools/adb install -r android/experimental/LOAndroid3/bin/LibreOfficeViewer-debug.apk + +To see the log: + + /platform-tools/adb logcat + +To debug, install the .apk, run it, and then: + + cd android/experimental/LOAndroid3 + /ndk-gdb --adb=/platform-tools/adb + NB: If you happen to upgrade to Android SDK Tools 23, and the build (using 'make verbose=t android') fails for you with: