Port JavaFX application fo Android APK, with javafxports

javafxports provide tools to build a Java(FX) runtime for Android devices. You can follow the instructions to port JavaFX Application to Android APK.

Here show how to port JavaFX Hello World to Android APK, on Ubuntu.

JavaFXAndroid

- It's assumed Android SDK is install on your system, at /home/eric/Android in my case.

- Gradle is need to create Android project from JavaFX application. To install Gradle (currently 1.4) on Ubuntu, run the command:
$ sudo apt-get install gradle


- You need a JavaFX-Dalvik Runtime. You can either download it here (easy) or build this yourself (less trivial). Always download the latest version of the runtime: dalvik-sdk-latest. /home/eric/dalvik-sdk in my case.


- Create a JavaFX Hello World project compiled with Java 7. To specify compiled with Java 7 in Netbeans, click File (or right click the project), -> Project Properties, select Category of Sources, select Source/Binary Format of JDK 7.


- To run Gradle to generate Android project, and ant to generate APK, the following environment setting have to be set.

path to Android SDK:
$ export ANDROID_SDK=/home/eric/Android/sdk
$ export PATH=$ANDROID_SDK/tools:$ANDROID_SDK/platform-tools:$PATH

Android and Java Home:
$ export ANDROID_HOME=/home/eric/Android/sdk
$ export JAVA_HOME=/home/eric/jdk1.8.0_20

- Switch to /home/eric/dalvik-sdk/android-tools, run the command to generate Android Project:

gradle -PDEBUG -PDIR=/home/eric/JavaFXAndroid -PNAME=JavaFXAndroid -PPACKAGE=com.JavaFXAndroid -PJFX_SDK=/home/eric/dalvik-sdk -PJFX_APP=/home/eric/NetBeansProjects/com.JavaFXAndroid/dist -PJFX_MAIN=com.javafxandroid.ComJavaFXAndroid -PANDROID_SDK=/home/eric/Android/sdk createProject

Where:

DIR=/home/eric/JavaFXAndroid - the output directory.
NAME=JavaFXAndroid - Name of the target Android project.
PACKAGE=com.JavaFXAndroid - package name of Java application
JFX_SDK=/home/eric/dalvik-sdk - location of downloaded JavaFX-Dalvik Runtime.
JFX_APP=/home/eric/NetBeansProjects/com.JavaFXAndroid/dist - The location of the Netbeans JavaFX project.
JFX_MAIN=com.javafxandroid.ComJavaFXAndroid - fully name of the main class of your JavaFX Application
ANDROID_SDK=/home/eric/Android/sdk createProject - location of your Android SDK.

Once successfully finished, switch to the the directory of the generated Android Project,  /home/eric/JavaFXAndroid/JavaFXAndroid in my case.

Run the command to generate the APK in its bin directory.
$ ant debug

Then you can run the adb command in bin directory to install the APK to real Android devices.
$ adb install -r -debug.apk


Run the ported Android app on real device:

javafxports , a JavaFX on Android Porting Community

javafxports host a JavaFX Android community project. It contains instructions on how to run JavaFX applications on Android. The code is available at https://bitbucket.org/javafxports/android-graphics-rt.

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Creating JavaFX Applications that also run on Android devices is not that hard. This project contains everything that is required to build a Java(FX) runtime for Android devices, along with instructions on how to create an Android project based on an existing Java Project. You can choose to either build the runtime yourself, or download one in the Downloads section of this project. The brave ones can build their own runtime. -- follow the instructions to build the runtime on Linux and MacOS.

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How to build Open JavaFX for Android

Here (https://blogs.oracle.com/jfxprg/entry/how_to_build_open_javafx) is a short recipe for baking JavaFX for Android dalvik. Just a few ingredients needed but each one requires special care.