How do I configure my Android Studio to compile the FLIR SDK sample?

[Ben321]

I have gone to the trouble of installing Java JDK (a prerequisite of running Android SDK / Android Studio), and have installed Android Studio/SDK. FINALLY after a couple hours installing these, and managing to get the Android IDE to actually run without throwing up errors (not an easy task itself), I FINALLY got it so I could start and run Android Studio. I then downloaded the FLIR One SDK including the sample app.

So I thought, "This is going to be easy from here on out, I'll just load the FLIR sample app, click a 'compile' button, copy the resulting APK file to my Android phone, and it will be good to go", but BOY OH BOY was I wrong. First it said that it needed to download the supporting files for the version of Android that the FLIR One SDK required, so I had to wait for it to autoupdate Android Studio with these files. Then when I FINALLY compiled it, there was no APK. The "build" button (unlike with other programming languages) does NOT generate a usable file. I had to search through menus and find a separate "make apk" button. So I clicked that, and got an APK file. So now I'm thinking "FINALLY I've got the working FLIR One SDK sample app", but again I was SO WRONG. I copy the APK file over to my phone and try to run it, but it appears to be a corrupt APK file, and my phone said that it was an invalid APK file!!!!!!!!!!

So now I'm going to do what I should have done from the start, ask for a step-by-step tutorial on these forums, a tutorial on EXACTLY what to do to configure a brand-spanking-new copy of Android Studio, to make it work for compiling the FLIR One SDK sample app. So somebody, PLEASE help me. Please write me a tutorial, that if I follow all the steps correctly is GUARANTIED to cause the resulting APK file to be a valid APK file.

[Ben321]

Finally got it to compile (just recopied all the files from the FLIR One SDK), after cleaning out space on my harddrive. I think it was getting so low that the compiler caused the drive to run out of space for intermediate files, causing a corrupt output in the final APK. But now I have another question.

I've got debug version going fine. I even have created my own KeyStore and Private Key to sign the Release version of the app. But there's a problem. The release version should be called app-release.apk. However it instead is being called app-release-unaligned.apk and I don't know why it isn't aligning it (whatever that means). The debug version produces 2 files, app-debug-unaligned.apk and app-debug.apk, but the release version is only making app-release-unaligned.apk rather than creating the correct final version which should be called app-release.apk. Please tell me how to configure Android Studio to properly "align" the final release version.

[tomas123]

Copy the app-debug.apk to your android device and install it.

e.g. with ES explorer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop

you must activate "unknown sources"


That's all!

alternative activate the developer mode and then Android Studio installs the apk direct on your device (after a build)