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Introduction

Recently Google made it compulsory that all new apps must be uploaded not as .apk files but as .aab files. Till just recently the tool Buildozer was only able to compile your python applications to .apk but recent changes have allowed us to compile to .aab format. This is an instruction set that can be used to create a release .aab.

What is an AAB

The new .aab format may be a little confusing. .aab stands for app bundles and consists of a bundle of apk's within it. When you upload an aab to the playstore you are basically uploading a bunch of apk. PlayStore then based on the device that is downloading your application will generate the required apk based on that devices architecture and other parameters.

The introduction of .aab doesn't mean that .apk are no longer useful. .aab are only used for releases where as .apk are still used for testing your application and sharing it with others to directly install(not through the store).

> Note: Test your applications

Install and Create Emulators using AVDMANAGER and SDKMANAGER

TL;DR

For generic skin emulator with default apis (without google apis):

List All System Images Available for Download: sdkmanager --list | grep system-images
Download Image: sdkmanager --install "system-images;android-29;default;x86"

export ANDROID_HOME="/usr/local/share/android-sdk"
export ANDROID_NDK_HOME="/usr/local/share/android-ndk"
export ANDROID_SDK_HOME="/usr/local/Caskroom/android-sdk/"
export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-8.jdk/Contents/Home
export PATH="/usr/local/share/android-sdk/cmake/3.10.2.4988404/bin:$PATH"

Grid engine

The configuration is the following.

node00: Grid master. This node has the alias name grid.
others: Grid execution nodes.

Make sure Java is available in all nodes (via default-jre package).

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	import sys
	import cv2
	import subprocess
	from subprocess import call


	import aalib
	import Image

	#
	# Comic Chat fixer MITM proxy: fixes Comic Chat to (sort of) work with modern
	# IRC servers. Tested with Microsoft Chat 2.5 on Windows XP, 8 and 10
	#
	# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
	# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
	# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
	# (at your option) any later version.
	#
	# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,