Development Workflow for Android Services

RAD Studio suggests you the following development workflow for Android Services when adding support to the Android 64-bit target platform:

• Remove Android Services previously added to an existing application.

This step is required to add the 64-bit flavor of native libraries (e.g. libProxyAndroidService.so and libMyService.so) related to the Android Services to the deployment list of the application project.

• Add an Android Service just once to the application.

Keep in mind, the Android 32-bit and Android 64-bit target platforms share at each other Android Services in terms of deployment of native libraries. As a result, it is not possible to add the same Android Service to both Android target platforms.

Consider the following situations when working in a 64-bit target platform:

• If you have an existing application and added an Android Service to it using a previous product release:
  • You need to remove the Android Service from the Android 32-bit target platform.
  • Make sure after removing the Android Services from the Android 32-bit target platform, Java libraries for the Android Services are also removed.
  • Each Android Service adds one Java library; for instance, you need to avoid the same Java library being listed in duplicate under the Libraries node of the Android 32-bit target platform. Otherwise, the FireMonkey application will fail to build.
• If you created a new application or finished removing the Android Services from an existing application, consider the following:
  • For Android 32-bit platform, follow the steps:
    • For the MyService project:
      • Select Android 32-bit as the active target platform.
      • Build the service.
    • For the MyApplication project:
      • Select Android 32-bit as the active target platform.
      • On the Add new Android Service dialog, select the Search files automatically from project base path option.
      • Press Next.
      • Select the base path for the MyService Android service.
      • Press Next.
      • Press Finish.
      • Build the application.
  • For Android 64-bit platform, follow the steps:
    • For the MyService project:
      • Select Android 64-bit as the active target platform.
      • Build the service.
    • For the MyApplication project:
      • Select Android 64-bit as the active target platform.
      • Build the application.

See Also

• Creating Android Services