README-android.txt - third_party/sdl - Git at Google

 ================================================================================
 Simple DirectMedia Layer for Android
 ================================================================================

 Requirements:

 Android SDK (version 10 or later)
 http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

 Android NDK r7 or later
 http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html

 Minimum API level supported by SDL: 10 (Android 2.3.3)

 ================================================================================
  How the port works
 ================================================================================

 - Android applications are Java-based, optionally with parts written in C
 - As SDL apps are C-based, we use a small Java shim that uses JNI to talk to
 the SDL library
 - This means that your application C code must be placed inside an Android
 Java project, along with some C support code that communicates with Java
 - This eventually produces a standard Android .apk package

 The Android Java code implements an "Activity" and can be found in:
 android-project/src/org/libsdl/app/SDLActivity.java

 The Java code loads your game code, the SDL shared library, and
 dispatches to native functions implemented in the SDL library:
 src/SDL_android.c

 Your project must include some glue code that starts your main() routine:
 src/main/android/SDL_android_main.c


 ================================================================================
  Building an app
 ================================================================================

 For simple projects you can use the script located at build-scripts/androidbuild.sh

 There's two ways of using it:

 androidbuild.sh com.yourcompany.yourapp < sources.list
 androidbuild.sh com.yourcompany.yourapp source1.c source2.c ...sourceN.c

 sources.list should be a text file with a source file name in each line
 Filenames should be specified relative to the current directory, for example if
 you are in the build-scripts directory and want to create the testgles.c test, you'll
 run:

 ./androidbuild.sh org.libsdl.testgles ../test/testgles.c

 One limitation of this script is that all sources provided will be aggregated into
 a single directory, thus all your source files should have a unique name.

 Once the project is complete the script will tell you where the debug APK is located.
 If you want to create a signed release APK, you can use the project created by this
 utility to generate it.

 Finally, a word of caution: re running androidbuild.sh wipes any changes you may have
 done in the build directory for the app!


 For more complex projects, follow these instructions:

 1. Copy the android-project directory wherever you want to keep your projects
    and rename it to the name of your project.
 2. Move or symlink this SDL directory into the <project>/jni directory
 3. Edit <project>/jni/src/Android.mk to include your source files
 4. Run 'ndk-build' (a script provided by the NDK). This compiles the C source

 If you want to use the Eclipse IDE, skip to the Eclipse section below.

 5. Create <project>/local.properties and use that to point to the Android SDK directory, by writing a line with the following form:
 sdk.dir=PATH_TO_ANDROID_SDK
 6. Run 'ant debug' in android/project. This compiles the .java and eventually
    creates a .apk with the native code embedded
 7. 'ant debug install' will push the apk to the device or emulator (if connected)

 Here's an explanation of the files in the Android project, so you can customize them:

 android-project/
 	AndroidManifest.xml	- package manifest. Among others, it contains the class name
 				  of the main Activity and the package name of the application.
 	build.properties	- empty
 	build.xml		- build description file, used by ant. The actual application name
 				  is specified here.
 	default.properties	- holds the target ABI for the application, android-10 and up
 	project.properties	- holds the target ABI for the application, android-10 and up
 	local.properties	- holds the SDK path, you should change this to the path to your SDK
 	jni/			- directory holding native code
 	jni/Android.mk		- Android makefile that can call recursively the Android.mk files
 				  in all subdirectories
 	jni/SDL/		- (symlink to) directory holding the SDL library files
 	jni/SDL/Android.mk	- Android makefile for creating the SDL shared library
 	jni/src/		- directory holding your C/C++ source
 	jni/src/Android.mk	- Android makefile that you should customize to include your
                                   source code and any library references
 	res/			- directory holding resources for your application
 	res/drawable-*		- directories holding icons for different phone hardware. Could be
 				  one dir called "drawable".
 	res/layout/main.xml	- Usually contains a file main.xml, which declares the screen layout.
 				  We don't need it because we use the SDL video output.
 	res/values/strings.xml	- strings used in your application, including the application name
 				  shown on the phone.
 	src/org/libsdl/app/SDLActivity.java - the Java class handling the initialization and binding
 				  to SDL.  Be very careful changing this, as the SDL library relies
 				  on this implementation.


 ================================================================================
  Customizing your application name
 ================================================================================

 To customize your application name, edit AndroidManifest.xml and replace
 "org.libsdl.app" with an identifier for your product package.

 Then create a Java class extending SDLActivity and place it in a directory
 under src matching your package, e.g.
 	src/com/gamemaker/game/MyGame.java

 Here's an example of a minimal class file:
 --- MyGame.java --------------------------
 package com.gamemaker.game;

 import org.libsdl.app.SDLActivity;

 /*
  * A sample wrapper class that just calls SDLActivity
  */

 public class MyGame extends SDLActivity { }

 ------------------------------------------

 Then replace "SDLActivity" in AndroidManifest.xml with the name of your
 class, .e.g. "MyGame"

 ================================================================================
  Customizing your application icon
 ================================================================================

 Conceptually changing your icon is just replacing the "ic_launcher.png" files in
 the drawable directories under the res directory. There are four directories for
 different screen sizes. These can be replaced with one dir called "drawable",
 containing an icon file "ic_launcher.png" with dimensions 48x48 or 72x72.

 You may need to change the name of your icon in AndroidManifest.xml to match
 this icon filename.

 ================================================================================
  Loading assets
 ================================================================================

 Any files you put in the "assets" directory of your android-project directory
 will get bundled into the application package and you can load them using the
 standard functions in SDL_rwops.h.

 There are also a few Android specific functions that allow you to get other
 useful paths for saving and loading data:
 SDL_AndroidGetInternalStoragePath()
 SDL_AndroidGetExternalStorageState()
 SDL_AndroidGetExternalStoragePath()

 See SDL_system.h for more details on these functions.

 The asset packaging system will, by default, compress certain file extensions.
 SDL includes two asset file access mechanisms, the preferred one is the so
 called "File Descriptor" method, which is faster and doesn't involve the Dalvik
 GC, but given this method does not work on compressed assets, there is also the
 "Input Stream" method, which is automatically used as a fall back by SDL. You
 may want to keep this fact in mind when building your APK, specially when large
 files are involved.
 For more information on which extensions get compressed by default and how to
 disable this behaviour, see for example:

 http://ponystyle.com/blog/2010/03/26/dealing-with-asset-compression-in-android-apps/

 ================================================================================
  Pause / Resume behaviour
 ================================================================================

 If SDL is compiled with SDL_ANDROID_BLOCK_ON_PAUSE defined (the default),
 the event loop will block itself when the app is paused (ie, when the user
 returns to the main Android dashboard). Blocking is better in terms of battery
 use, and it allows your app to spring back to life instantaneously after resume
 (versus polling for a resume message).

 Upon resume, SDL will attempt to restore the GL context automatically.
 In modern devices (Android 3.0 and up) this will most likely succeed and your
 app can continue to operate as it was.

 However, there's a chance (on older hardware, or on systems under heavy load),
 where the GL context can not be restored. In that case you have to listen for
 a specific message, (which is not yet implemented!) and restore your textures
 manually or quit the app (which is actually the kind of behaviour you'll see
 under iOS, if the OS can not restore your GL context it will just kill your app)

 ================================================================================
  Threads and the Java VM
 ================================================================================

 For a quick tour on how Linux native threads interoperate with the Java VM, take
 a look here: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/jni.html
 If you want to use threads in your SDL app, it's strongly recommended that you
 do so by creating them using SDL functions. This way, the required attach/detach
 handling is managed by SDL automagically. If you have threads created by other
 means and they make calls to SDL functions, make sure that you call
 Android_JNI_SetupThread before doing anything else otherwise SDL will attach
 your thread automatically anyway (when you make an SDL call), but it'll never
 detach it.

 ================================================================================
  Using STL
 ================================================================================

 You can use STL in your project by creating an Application.mk file in the jni
 folder and adding the following line:
 APP_STL := stlport_static

 For more information check out CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT.html in the NDK documentation.

 ================================================================================
  Additional documentation
 ================================================================================

 The documentation in the NDK docs directory is very helpful in understanding the
 build process and how to work with native code on the Android platform.

 The best place to start is with docs/OVERVIEW.TXT


 ================================================================================
  Using Eclipse
 ================================================================================

 First make sure that you've installed Eclipse and the Android extensions as described here:
 	http://developer.android.com/sdk/eclipse-adt.html

 Once you've copied the SDL android project and customized it, you can create an Eclipse project from it:
  * File -> New -> Other
  * Select the Android -> Android Project wizard and click Next
  * Enter the name you'd like your project to have
  * Select "Create project from existing source" and browse for your project directory
  * Make sure the Build Target is set to Android 2.0
  * Click Finish


 ================================================================================
  Using the emulator
 ================================================================================

 There are some good tips and tricks for getting the most out of the
 emulator here: http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/emulator.html

 Especially useful is the info on setting up OpenGL ES 2.0 emulation.

 Notice that this software emulator is incredibly slow and needs a lot of disk space.
 Using a real device works better.

 ================================================================================
  Troubleshooting
 ================================================================================

 You can create and run an emulator from the Eclipse IDE:
  * Window -> Android SDK and AVD Manager

 You can see if adb can see any devices with the following command:
 	adb devices

 You can see the output of log messages on the default device with:
 	adb logcat

 You can push files to the device with:
 	adb push local_file remote_path_and_file

 You can push files to the SD Card at /sdcard, for example:
 	adb push moose.dat /sdcard/moose.dat

 You can see the files on the SD card with a shell command:
 	adb shell ls /sdcard/

 You can start a command shell on the default device with:
 	adb shell

 You can remove the library files of your project (and not the SDL lib files) with:
 	ndk-build clean

 You can do a build with the following command:
 	ndk-build

 You can see the complete command line that ndk-build is using by passing V=1 on the command line:
 	ndk-build V=1

 If your application crashes in native code, you can use addr2line to convert the
 addresses in the stack trace to lines in your code.

 For example, if your crash looks like this:
 I/DEBUG   (   31): signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 2 (SEGV_ACCERR), fault addr 400085d0
 I/DEBUG   (   31):  r0 00000000  r1 00001000  r2 00000003  r3 400085d4
 I/DEBUG   (   31):  r4 400085d0  r5 40008000  r6 afd41504  r7 436c6a7c
 I/DEBUG   (   31):  r8 436c6b30  r9 435c6fb0  10 435c6f9c  fp 4168d82c
 I/DEBUG   (   31):  ip 8346aff0  sp 436c6a60  lr afd1c8ff  pc afd1c902  cpsr 60000030
 I/DEBUG   (   31):          #00  pc 0001c902  /system/lib/libc.so
 I/DEBUG   (   31):          #01  pc 0001ccf6  /system/lib/libc.so
 I/DEBUG   (   31):          #02  pc 000014bc  /data/data/org.libsdl.app/lib/libmain.so
 I/DEBUG   (   31):          #03  pc 00001506  /data/data/org.libsdl.app/lib/libmain.so

 You can see that there's a crash in the C library being called from the main code.
 I run addr2line with the debug version of my code:
 	arm-eabi-addr2line -C -f -e obj/local/armeabi/libmain.so
 and then paste in the number after "pc" in the call stack, from the line that I care about:
 000014bc

 I get output from addr2line showing that it's in the quit function, in testspriteminimal.c, on line 23.

 You can add logging to your code to help show what's happening:

 #include <android/log.h>

 	__android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_INFO, "foo", "Something happened! x = %d", x);

 If you need to build without optimization turned on, you can create a file called
 "Application.mk" in the jni directory, with the following line in it:
 APP_OPTIM := debug


 ================================================================================
  Memory debugging
 ================================================================================

 The best (and slowest) way to debug memory issues on Android is valgrind.
 Valgrind has support for Android out of the box, just grab code using:
 	svn co svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk valgrind
 ... and follow the instructions in the file README.android to build it.

 One thing I needed to do on Mac OS X was change the path to the toolchain,
 and add ranlib to the environment variables:
 export RANLIB=$NDKROOT/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3/prebuilt/darwin-x86/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-ranlib

 Once valgrind is built, you can create a wrapper script to launch your
 application with it, changing org.libsdl.app to your package identifier:
 --- start_valgrind_app -------------------
 #!/system/bin/sh
 export TMPDIR=/data/data/org.libsdl.app
 exec /data/local/Inst/bin/valgrind --log-file=/sdcard/valgrind.log --error-limit=no $*
 ------------------------------------------

 Then push it to the device:
 	adb push start_valgrind_app /data/local

 and make it executable:
 	adb shell chmod 755 /data/local/start_valgrind_app

 and tell Android to use the script to launch your application:
 	adb shell setprop wrap.org.libsdl.app "logwrapper /data/local/start_valgrind_app"

 If the setprop command says "could not set property", it's likely that
 your package name is too long and you should make it shorter by changing
 AndroidManifest.xml and the path to your class file in android-project/src

 You can then launch your application normally and waaaaaaaiiittt for it.
 You can monitor the startup process with the logcat command above, and
 when it's done (or even while it's running) you can grab the valgrind
 output file:
 	adb pull /sdcard/valgrind.log

 When you're done instrumenting with valgrind, you can disable the wrapper:
 	adb shell setprop wrap.org.libsdl.app ""

 ================================================================================
  Why is API level 10 the minimum required?
 ================================================================================

 API level 10 is required because SDL requires some functionality for running not
 available on older devices and some for building which is not in older NDK/SDKs.

 Support for native OpenGL ES and ES2 applications was introduced in the NDK for
 API level 4 and 8. EGL was made a stable API in the NDK for API level 9, which
 has since then been obsoleted, with the recommendation to developers to bump the
 required API level to 10.
 As of this writing, according to http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
 about 90% of the Android devices accessing Google Play support API level 10 or
 higher (March 2013).

 ================================================================================
  A note regarding the use of the "dirty rectangles" rendering technique
 ================================================================================

 If your app uses a variation of the "dirty rectangles" rendering technique,
 where you only update a portion of the screen on each frame, you may notice a
 variety of visual glitches on Android, that are not present on other platforms.
 This is caused by SDL's use of EGL as the support system to handle OpenGL ES/ES2
 contexts, in particular the use of the eglSwapBuffers function. As stated in the
 documentation for the function "The contents of ancillary buffers are always
 undefined after calling eglSwapBuffers".
 Setting the EGL_SWAP_BEHAVIOR attribute of the surface to EGL_BUFFER_PRESERVED
 is not possible for SDL as it requires EGL 1.4, available only on the API level
 17+, so the only workaround available on this platform is to redraw the entire
 screen each frame.

 Reference: http://www.khronos.org/registry/egl/specs/EGLTechNote0001.html

 ================================================================================
  Known issues
 ================================================================================

 - TODO. I'm sure there's a bunch more stuff I haven't thought of
	================================================================================
	Simple DirectMedia Layer for Android
	================================================================================

	Requirements:

	Android SDK (version 10 or later)
	http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

	Android NDK r7 or later
	http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html

	Minimum API level supported by SDL: 10 (Android 2.3.3)

	================================================================================
	How the port works
	================================================================================

	- Android applications are Java-based, optionally with parts written in C
	- As SDL apps are C-based, we use a small Java shim that uses JNI to talk to
	the SDL library
	- This means that your application C code must be placed inside an Android
	Java project, along with some C support code that communicates with Java
	- This eventually produces a standard Android .apk package

	The Android Java code implements an "Activity" and can be found in:
	android-project/src/org/libsdl/app/SDLActivity.java

	The Java code loads your game code, the SDL shared library, and
	dispatches to native functions implemented in the SDL library:
	src/SDL_android.c

	Your project must include some glue code that starts your main() routine:
	src/main/android/SDL_android_main.c


	================================================================================
	Building an app
	================================================================================

	For simple projects you can use the script located at build-scripts/androidbuild.sh

	There's two ways of using it:

	androidbuild.sh com.yourcompany.yourapp < sources.list
	androidbuild.sh com.yourcompany.yourapp source1.c source2.c ...sourceN.c

	sources.list should be a text file with a source file name in each line
	Filenames should be specified relative to the current directory, for example if
	you are in the build-scripts directory and want to create the testgles.c test, you'll
	run:

	./androidbuild.sh org.libsdl.testgles ../test/testgles.c

	One limitation of this script is that all sources provided will be aggregated into
	a single directory, thus all your source files should have a unique name.

	Once the project is complete the script will tell you where the debug APK is located.
	If you want to create a signed release APK, you can use the project created by this
	utility to generate it.

	Finally, a word of caution: re running androidbuild.sh wipes any changes you may have
	done in the build directory for the app!


	For more complex projects, follow these instructions:

	1. Copy the android-project directory wherever you want to keep your projects
	and rename it to the name of your project.
	2. Move or symlink this SDL directory into the <project>/jni directory
	3. Edit <project>/jni/src/Android.mk to include your source files
	4. Run 'ndk-build' (a script provided by the NDK). This compiles the C source

	If you want to use the Eclipse IDE, skip to the Eclipse section below.

	5. Create <project>/local.properties and use that to point to the Android SDK directory, by writing a line with the following form:
	sdk.dir=PATH_TO_ANDROID_SDK
	6. Run 'ant debug' in android/project. This compiles the .java and eventually
	creates a .apk with the native code embedded
	7. 'ant debug install' will push the apk to the device or emulator (if connected)

	Here's an explanation of the files in the Android project, so you can customize them:

	android-project/
	AndroidManifest.xml - package manifest. Among others, it contains the class name
	of the main Activity and the package name of the application.
	build.properties - empty
	build.xml - build description file, used by ant. The actual application name
	is specified here.
	default.properties - holds the target ABI for the application, android-10 and up
	project.properties - holds the target ABI for the application, android-10 and up
	local.properties - holds the SDK path, you should change this to the path to your SDK
	jni/ - directory holding native code
	jni/Android.mk - Android makefile that can call recursively the Android.mk files
	in all subdirectories
	jni/SDL/ - (symlink to) directory holding the SDL library files
	jni/SDL/Android.mk - Android makefile for creating the SDL shared library
	jni/src/ - directory holding your C/C++ source
	jni/src/Android.mk - Android makefile that you should customize to include your
	source code and any library references
	res/ - directory holding resources for your application
	res/drawable-* - directories holding icons for different phone hardware. Could be
	one dir called "drawable".
	res/layout/main.xml - Usually contains a file main.xml, which declares the screen layout.
	We don't need it because we use the SDL video output.
	res/values/strings.xml - strings used in your application, including the application name
	shown on the phone.
	src/org/libsdl/app/SDLActivity.java - the Java class handling the initialization and binding
	to SDL. Be very careful changing this, as the SDL library relies
	on this implementation.


	================================================================================
	Customizing your application name
	================================================================================

	To customize your application name, edit AndroidManifest.xml and replace
	"org.libsdl.app" with an identifier for your product package.

	Then create a Java class extending SDLActivity and place it in a directory
	under src matching your package, e.g.
	src/com/gamemaker/game/MyGame.java

	Here's an example of a minimal class file:
	--- MyGame.java --------------------------
	package com.gamemaker.game;

	import org.libsdl.app.SDLActivity;

	/*
	* A sample wrapper class that just calls SDLActivity
	*/

	public class MyGame extends SDLActivity { }

	------------------------------------------

	Then replace "SDLActivity" in AndroidManifest.xml with the name of your
	class, .e.g. "MyGame"

	================================================================================
	Customizing your application icon
	================================================================================

	Conceptually changing your icon is just replacing the "ic_launcher.png" files in
	the drawable directories under the res directory. There are four directories for
	different screen sizes. These can be replaced with one dir called "drawable",
	containing an icon file "ic_launcher.png" with dimensions 48x48 or 72x72.

	You may need to change the name of your icon in AndroidManifest.xml to match
	this icon filename.

	================================================================================
	Loading assets
	================================================================================

	Any files you put in the "assets" directory of your android-project directory
	will get bundled into the application package and you can load them using the
	standard functions in SDL_rwops.h.

	There are also a few Android specific functions that allow you to get other
	useful paths for saving and loading data:
	SDL_AndroidGetInternalStoragePath()
	SDL_AndroidGetExternalStorageState()
	SDL_AndroidGetExternalStoragePath()

	See SDL_system.h for more details on these functions.

	The asset packaging system will, by default, compress certain file extensions.
	SDL includes two asset file access mechanisms, the preferred one is the so
	called "File Descriptor" method, which is faster and doesn't involve the Dalvik
	GC, but given this method does not work on compressed assets, there is also the
	"Input Stream" method, which is automatically used as a fall back by SDL. You
	may want to keep this fact in mind when building your APK, specially when large
	files are involved.
	For more information on which extensions get compressed by default and how to
	disable this behaviour, see for example:

	http://ponystyle.com/blog/2010/03/26/dealing-with-asset-compression-in-android-apps/

	================================================================================
	Pause / Resume behaviour
	================================================================================

	If SDL is compiled with SDL_ANDROID_BLOCK_ON_PAUSE defined (the default),
	the event loop will block itself when the app is paused (ie, when the user
	returns to the main Android dashboard). Blocking is better in terms of battery
	use, and it allows your app to spring back to life instantaneously after resume
	(versus polling for a resume message).

	Upon resume, SDL will attempt to restore the GL context automatically.
	In modern devices (Android 3.0 and up) this will most likely succeed and your
	app can continue to operate as it was.

	However, there's a chance (on older hardware, or on systems under heavy load),
	where the GL context can not be restored. In that case you have to listen for
	a specific message, (which is not yet implemented!) and restore your textures
	manually or quit the app (which is actually the kind of behaviour you'll see
	under iOS, if the OS can not restore your GL context it will just kill your app)

	================================================================================
	Threads and the Java VM
	================================================================================

	For a quick tour on how Linux native threads interoperate with the Java VM, take
	a look here: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/jni.html
	If you want to use threads in your SDL app, it's strongly recommended that you
	do so by creating them using SDL functions. This way, the required attach/detach
	handling is managed by SDL automagically. If you have threads created by other
	means and they make calls to SDL functions, make sure that you call
	Android_JNI_SetupThread before doing anything else otherwise SDL will attach
	your thread automatically anyway (when you make an SDL call), but it'll never
	detach it.

	================================================================================
	Using STL
	================================================================================

	You can use STL in your project by creating an Application.mk file in the jni
	folder and adding the following line:
	APP_STL := stlport_static

	For more information check out CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT.html in the NDK documentation.

	================================================================================
	Additional documentation
	================================================================================

	The documentation in the NDK docs directory is very helpful in understanding the
	build process and how to work with native code on the Android platform.

	The best place to start is with docs/OVERVIEW.TXT


	================================================================================
	Using Eclipse
	================================================================================

	First make sure that you've installed Eclipse and the Android extensions as described here:
	http://developer.android.com/sdk/eclipse-adt.html

	Once you've copied the SDL android project and customized it, you can create an Eclipse project from it:
	* File -> New -> Other
	* Select the Android -> Android Project wizard and click Next
	* Enter the name you'd like your project to have
	* Select "Create project from existing source" and browse for your project directory
	* Make sure the Build Target is set to Android 2.0
	* Click Finish


	================================================================================
	Using the emulator
	================================================================================

	There are some good tips and tricks for getting the most out of the
	emulator here: http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/emulator.html

	Especially useful is the info on setting up OpenGL ES 2.0 emulation.

	Notice that this software emulator is incredibly slow and needs a lot of disk space.
	Using a real device works better.

	================================================================================
	Troubleshooting
	================================================================================

	You can create and run an emulator from the Eclipse IDE:
	* Window -> Android SDK and AVD Manager

	You can see if adb can see any devices with the following command:
	adb devices

	You can see the output of log messages on the default device with:
	adb logcat

	You can push files to the device with:
	adb push local_file remote_path_and_file

	You can push files to the SD Card at /sdcard, for example:
	adb push moose.dat /sdcard/moose.dat

	You can see the files on the SD card with a shell command:
	adb shell ls /sdcard/

	You can start a command shell on the default device with:
	adb shell

	You can remove the library files of your project (and not the SDL lib files) with:
	ndk-build clean

	You can do a build with the following command:
	ndk-build

	You can see the complete command line that ndk-build is using by passing V=1 on the command line:
	ndk-build V=1

	If your application crashes in native code, you can use addr2line to convert the
	addresses in the stack trace to lines in your code.

	For example, if your crash looks like this:
	I/DEBUG ( 31): signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 2 (SEGV_ACCERR), fault addr 400085d0
	I/DEBUG ( 31): r0 00000000 r1 00001000 r2 00000003 r3 400085d4
	I/DEBUG ( 31): r4 400085d0 r5 40008000 r6 afd41504 r7 436c6a7c
	I/DEBUG ( 31): r8 436c6b30 r9 435c6fb0 10 435c6f9c fp 4168d82c
	I/DEBUG ( 31): ip 8346aff0 sp 436c6a60 lr afd1c8ff pc afd1c902 cpsr 60000030
	I/DEBUG ( 31): #00 pc 0001c902 /system/lib/libc.so
	I/DEBUG ( 31): #01 pc 0001ccf6 /system/lib/libc.so
	I/DEBUG ( 31): #02 pc 000014bc /data/data/org.libsdl.app/lib/libmain.so
	I/DEBUG ( 31): #03 pc 00001506 /data/data/org.libsdl.app/lib/libmain.so

	You can see that there's a crash in the C library being called from the main code.
	I run addr2line with the debug version of my code:
	arm-eabi-addr2line -C -f -e obj/local/armeabi/libmain.so
	and then paste in the number after "pc" in the call stack, from the line that I care about:
	000014bc

	I get output from addr2line showing that it's in the quit function, in testspriteminimal.c, on line 23.

	You can add logging to your code to help show what's happening:

	#include <android/log.h>

	__android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_INFO, "foo", "Something happened! x = %d", x);

	If you need to build without optimization turned on, you can create a file called
	"Application.mk" in the jni directory, with the following line in it:
	APP_OPTIM := debug


	================================================================================
	Memory debugging
	================================================================================

	The best (and slowest) way to debug memory issues on Android is valgrind.
	Valgrind has support for Android out of the box, just grab code using:
	svn co svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk valgrind
	... and follow the instructions in the file README.android to build it.

	One thing I needed to do on Mac OS X was change the path to the toolchain,
	and add ranlib to the environment variables:
	export RANLIB=$NDKROOT/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3/prebuilt/darwin-x86/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-ranlib

	Once valgrind is built, you can create a wrapper script to launch your
	application with it, changing org.libsdl.app to your package identifier:
	--- start_valgrind_app -------------------
	#!/system/bin/sh
	export TMPDIR=/data/data/org.libsdl.app
	exec /data/local/Inst/bin/valgrind --log-file=/sdcard/valgrind.log --error-limit=no $*
	------------------------------------------

	Then push it to the device:
	adb push start_valgrind_app /data/local

	and make it executable:
	adb shell chmod 755 /data/local/start_valgrind_app

	and tell Android to use the script to launch your application:
	adb shell setprop wrap.org.libsdl.app "logwrapper /data/local/start_valgrind_app"

	If the setprop command says "could not set property", it's likely that
	your package name is too long and you should make it shorter by changing
	AndroidManifest.xml and the path to your class file in android-project/src

	You can then launch your application normally and waaaaaaaiiittt for it.
	You can monitor the startup process with the logcat command above, and
	when it's done (or even while it's running) you can grab the valgrind
	output file:
	adb pull /sdcard/valgrind.log

	When you're done instrumenting with valgrind, you can disable the wrapper:
	adb shell setprop wrap.org.libsdl.app ""

	================================================================================
	Why is API level 10 the minimum required?
	================================================================================

	API level 10 is required because SDL requires some functionality for running not
	available on older devices and some for building which is not in older NDK/SDKs.

	Support for native OpenGL ES and ES2 applications was introduced in the NDK for
	API level 4 and 8. EGL was made a stable API in the NDK for API level 9, which
	has since then been obsoleted, with the recommendation to developers to bump the
	required API level to 10.
	As of this writing, according to http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
	about 90% of the Android devices accessing Google Play support API level 10 or
	higher (March 2013).

	================================================================================
	A note regarding the use of the "dirty rectangles" rendering technique
	================================================================================

	If your app uses a variation of the "dirty rectangles" rendering technique,
	where you only update a portion of the screen on each frame, you may notice a
	variety of visual glitches on Android, that are not present on other platforms.
	This is caused by SDL's use of EGL as the support system to handle OpenGL ES/ES2
	contexts, in particular the use of the eglSwapBuffers function. As stated in the
	documentation for the function "The contents of ancillary buffers are always
	undefined after calling eglSwapBuffers".
	Setting the EGL_SWAP_BEHAVIOR attribute of the surface to EGL_BUFFER_PRESERVED
	is not possible for SDL as it requires EGL 1.4, available only on the API level
	17+, so the only workaround available on this platform is to redraw the entire
	screen each frame.

	Reference: http://www.khronos.org/registry/egl/specs/EGLTechNote0001.html

	================================================================================
	Known issues
	================================================================================

	- TODO. I'm sure there's a bunch more stuff I haven't thought of