Mist Api library for Android

This repository contains the Mist Api library for Android.

Build

Before building

Get git submodules

git submodule update --init --recursive

You will need to point to Android SDK local.properties, like this:

sdk.dir=/home/jan/Android/Sdk

Note: Currently we are building with NDK 28.2.13676358, see MistApi/build.gradle

JDK version

We are using openjdk version "17.0.17" 2025-10-21

Setting up Github packages

The wishcore dependency is distributed via github packages, so this step is required for building MistApi.

Create github.properties in repo root, and add to .gitignore;

gpr.usr=
gpr.key=

Then visit this page to get your Github id: https://api.github.com/users/ like https://api.github.com/users/janyman

Take "id" field, and insert into github.properties as grp.usr.

Then create a publishing key for you, by visinting https://github.com/settings/tokens Create a token that has "package write" permission, cut&paste into github.properties as grp.key

Build and publish artifact

1. Tag release

git tag 0.9.1

MistApi/build.gradle has the magic for setting artifact version according to latest git tag.

2. Build only the MistApi module, since the 'app' module has some test code that does not seem to be up to date.

./gradlew :MistApi:assembleRelease

Doing a clean build:

Note: this attempts to build all modules. TODO: fix app module.

$ ./gradlew --refresh-dependencies clean :MistApi:assembleRelease 

3. Publish the 'aar' artifact

This publishes to Github packages:

./gradlew publish 

The publishing is defined in app/build.gradle and requires that you have Github packages set up.

Debugging the native code

Edit your Android.mk so that you do not define -DRELEASE_BUILD and that you have -O0 -g

Build with:

NDK_DEBUG=1 ndk-build

Then build the project "assembleDebug" with Gradle

Then you can move the resulting aar file MistApi--debug.aar

To get stack traces you should use adb logcat and ndk-stack:

adb logcat | ndk-stack -sym ../obj/local/armeabi-v7a/

Or another example

adb logcat|~/Android/android-ndk-r16b/ndk-stack -sym MistApi/src/main/obj/local/armeabi-v7a/