I have written a GUI application in C++, built it for ARM processor and verified, that this application is running on Android in the Andronix emulated environment. Now is the question: How can I enable running this application on Android natively, without any emulated environment? I would like to create an APK file for installing it in a usual way. Are there any tools, which allow creating an APK file and packing an executable file into it?
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Take a look at [San-Angles](https://github.com/android/ndk-samples/tree/master/san-angeles). – Darkman Jun 14 '21 at 11:42
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You can create and Android NDK Project and create an APK with your c++ executable.
Official help is here Create a new project with C/C++ support
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Andronix allows you to run Linux and and Linux executables in an environment separate to the native one - but if you want to run a linux executable on an android, you can do so with much simpler tools, like adb. For example, adb shell ./sdcard/my_app.pe would theoretically work.
However, APKs in android are basically zip files that include metadata, and the compiled code as a dex file. You would typically use a platform like Android Studio to generate them from java code.
If you really want to implement things from scratch you probably need to compile your application into a jar file, and then convert it to the dex file using a tool like d2j.
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