Using RavEngine on Android

For every platform except Android, RavEngine can create a ready-to-go IDE project which can build and run a complete game with a single click. Unfortunately, Android requires some additional manual effort to make work.

Download a copy of RavEngine's SDL Android Builder project and place it somewhere outside your game repository.
Symlink your game repository into the sdl-android-builder/to-build directory.
Modify your game's root CMakeLists.txt to change the main executable target such that:
- It is a shared library rather than an executable, via add_library, and the target is named main.
  - you can find an example of how to do this in the HelloCube sample: https://github.com/RavEngine/HelloCube/blob/84222b9b846862321c07b016609a840637cbe589/CMakeLists.txt#L22-L30
Open the root sdl-android-builder project in Android Studio. Make any changes necessary to app/build.gradle such that your project is able to compile. For example, minSDKVersion must be set high enough that Vulkan 1.3 is enabled.
Press the green Run-Debug button in Android Studio. If all goes well, your game should boot up and begin running! If an exception occurs at runtime, you should get a breakpoint in Android studio.

The HelloCube example can be run on Android, if you want to compare your configuration to that one.

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