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/*
 * libwebsockets Android client - libwebsockets test application for Android
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2016 Alexander Bruines <alexander.bruines@gmail.com>
 *
 * This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0
 * Universal Public Domain Dedication.
 *
 * The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated
 * the work to the public domain by waiving all of his or her rights
 * to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related
 * and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy,
 * modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes,
 * all without asking permission.
 *
 * The test apps are intended to be adapted for use in your code, which
 * may be proprietary.  So unlike the library itself, they are licensed
 * Public Domain.
 */

This directory contains an Android Studio (2.1.1) project that builds
libwebsockets (+ openssl + zlib) and an Android application that is able
to connect to the 'dumb-increment-protocol' of the libwebsockets test server.

Building the native libraries requires the Android NDK which can be
installed using the SDK manager.

The app/src/main/jni/NativeLibs.mk is fully integraded with Gradle but will
only work on Linux and requires the following applications to be available
in addition to the NDK:

   awk cmake egrep git tar wget makedepend

(makedepend can be installed from (Debian) xutils-dev)

To build the project:

- Open an 'existing project' with Android Studio and select this directory.
  (answer yes/ok to the question to integrate with Gradle).

- Open the file app/src/main/jni/Application.mk and make sure NDK_ROOT
  is set correctly and that APP_PLATFORM is set to the appropriate API level.

- Build the project with CTRL+F9
  (open the gradle console to follow the build progress).

- Install APK to device and run.

- Connect to libwebsockets test server.