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I almost tried every tutorial I could find online about building an apk from python, I cant make it. First setup: Lubuntu on Eee pc 901 (on a 32gb sd card with 2gb ram- not a live cd -running alongside with windows 10) I have setup all the prerequisities and I am trying to build a simple hello world app. I have run into various errors "Aidl is missing..." or "command failed: ./distribute.sh -l"

1st question. Is it possible to do it in this setup or am I wasting my time (not taking into account the slow cpu of the netbook).

Second setup the prebuilt VM from here and I also get the above "command failed" error.

2nd question Where (which folder) do I run the buildozer android debug command. In the same folder with the main.app? in the root? how?

I am a complete noob in linux so please be very descriptive.

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  • Looks like the eee pc 901 has an atom processor. I wonder if that causes any problems. But regardless, post the full output from these commands (including the errors) if you want help solving them. – inclement Dec 03 '15 at 11:22
  • I did a clean install (Lubuntu) in my eee pc and followed [this](http://stackoverflow.com/a/23024248) instructions. These [link](https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2rCEv1yeAl0S3NyTDFIaWlDSkE&usp=sharing) are my buildozer.spec, main.app and output of buldozer android debug (>log.txt). Can you figure out where is the mistake? – Yannis Dec 03 '15 at 22:02
  • Your log seems to have lost its newlines. Can you fix that? – inclement Dec 04 '15 at 12:32
  • How? I run "buildozer android debug >log.txt" – Yannis Dec 05 '15 at 09:24

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You actually don't need a sdk manager as buildozer will download that itself. For a clean install try 

buildozer -v android clean

after deleting .buildozer folder from your /home/ and then try

buildozer -v android debug

Also set the log level as 2 in buildozer.spec and if you are using any python library add that in buildozer.spec requirement section with comma after kivy.For example if you are using numpy include that in following way

requirements = kivy,numpy

Let me know if these fix work.

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My environment is
Eee pc 901 netbook with Lubuntu 15.10
Python 2.7.10
Buildozer 0.30
Kivy 1.9.0
cython 0.21.2
In SDK manager I have installed the following:
Tools -->

  • Android SDK Tools 24.4.1
  • Android SDK Platform-tools 23.1
  • Android SDK Build-tools 20, 23.0.1 and 23.0.2

Android 4.4.2 (API19) -->

  • SDK Platform Extras -->
  • Android support library

After millions of attempts to build an apk with buildozer I got various errors (Aidl not found..., Command failed: ./distribute.sh -m "kivy"... etc) I finnaly managed to do it with the above configuration. For the Aidl error I think the problem was an uninstalled "thingy" in the SDK For the command failed error the problem was in the cython version. Check (http://kivy.org/docs/installation/installation-linux.html) to see which version of cython works for each version of Kivy (under Installation in a Virtual Environment --> Common dependencies --> Cython)

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