Compile Android PDK packages in Eclipse

Android PDK is built with standard make so it is possible to setup Eclipse to compile it. The only trick is to use C++/makefile project instead of generic makefile project. For some strange reason error parsers for generic makefile project do not work so as a result you can only see console output of the build and not errors / warnings.

To setup package (or the whole PDK) to build in Eclipse

Start Eclipse from shell window with configured PDK

Create C++/makefile project

Open properties, builders. Replace “all” with -j4 -C

Add ONE_TIME_MAKEFILE environment variable pointing to Android.mk file for your package

Build your code

As a useful addition you can add path to your sources