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P4A_pyjnius_DIR=~/code/pyjnius ./distribute.sh -b minimal -m 'pyjnius python' -u pyjnius
cd .; ./build.py --package org.minimal.test --name _MINIMAL --version 1 --private ~/code/testmininal --asset debug installd
adb logcat *:S python:D

jnius.diff

--- a/jnius/jnius_jvm_android.pxi
+++ b/jnius/jnius_jvm_android.pxi
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 # on android, rely on SDL to get the JNI env
-cdef extern JNIEnv *SDL_ANDROID_GetJNIEnv()
+ctypedef (JNIEnv *)(*f_android_get_jnienv)()
+cdef extern from "dlfcn.h":
+    ctypedef char const_char "const char"
+    void *dlsym(void *handle, const_char *symbol)
+    void *RTLD_GLOBAL
 
 cdef JNIEnv *get_platform_jnienv():
-    return SDL_ANDROID_GetJNIEnv()
+    from os import environ
+    symbol = environ.get(
+            "PYJNIUS_JNIENV_SYMBOL", "SDL_ANDROID_GetJNIEnv")
+    cdef char *c_symbol = symbol.encode("utf-8")
+    cdef f_android_get_jnienv fn = <f_android_get_jnienv>dlsym(RTLD_GLOBAL, c_symbol)
+    if fn == NULL:
+        return NULL
+    return fn()
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b1cefb7..070703b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ except ImportError:
 
 if platform == 'android':
     # for android, we use SDL...
-    libraries = ['sdl', 'log']
+    #libraries = ['sdl', 'log']
     library_dirs = ['libs/' + environ['ARCH']]
 elif platform == 'darwin':
     import objc

main.py

import androidembed
print "Hello world, we are entering in a loop!"
import jnius
print "tried importing jnius"
from jnius import accelerometer
print "jnius imported"
accelerometer.enable()
print "accelerometer enabled"
while androidembed.poll(1000):
    print "->", accelerometer.acceleration
print "We leaved our hello world!"

p4a-bootstrap.diff

diff --git a/bootstrap/minimal/jni/main.c b/bootstrap/minimal/jni/main.c
index f7b0ba1..c03dbf5 100644
--- a/bootstrap/minimal/jni/main.c
+++ b/bootstrap/minimal/jni/main.c
@@ -13,8 +13,13 @@
 #endif
 
 struct android_app *g_state = NULL;
+static JNIEnv *g_env = NULL;
 
 
+JNIEnv *minimal_get_jnienv() {
+       return g_env;
+}
+
 static PyObject *androidembed_poll(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) {
     int indent;
     int events;
@@ -96,6 +101,8 @@ void android_main(struct android_app* state) {
     //env_argument = getenv("ANDROID_ARGUMENT");
     //setenv("ANDROID_APP_PATH", env_argument, 1);
     //setenv("PYTHONVERBOSE", "2", 1);
+       setenv("PYJNIUS_JNIENV_SYMBOL", "minimal_get_jnienv", 1);
+       setenv("ANDROID_ARGUMENT", "", 1);  // needed for plyer
     Py_SetProgramName("python-android");
     Py_Initialize();
     //PySys_SetArgv(argc, argv);
@@ -108,23 +115,22 @@ void android_main(struct android_app* state) {
 
     // get the APK filename, and set it to ANDROID_APK_FN
     ANativeActivity* activity = state->activity;
-    JNIEnv* env = NULL;
-    (*activity->vm)->AttachCurrentThread(activity->vm, &env, 0);
-    jclass clazz = (*env)->GetObjectClass(env, activity->clazz);
-    jmethodID methodID = (*env)->GetMethodID(env, clazz, "getPackageCodePath", "()Ljava/lang/String;");
-    jobject result = (*env)->CallObjectMethod(env, activity->clazz, methodID);
+    (*activity->vm)->AttachCurrentThread(activity->vm, &g_env, 0);
+    jclass clazz = (*g_env)->GetObjectClass(g_env, activity->clazz);
+    jmethodID methodID = (*g_env)->GetMethodID(g_env, clazz, "getPackageCodePath", "()Ljava/lang/String;");
+    jobject result = (*g_env)->CallObjectMethod(g_env, activity->clazz, methodID);
     const char* str;
     jboolean isCopy;
-    str = (*env)->GetStringUTFChars(env, (jstring)result, &isCopy);
+    str = (*g_env)->GetStringUTFChars(g_env, (jstring)result, &isCopy);
     LOGI("Looked up package code path: %s", str);
     setenv("ANDROID_APK_FN", str, 1);
 
-    methodID = (*env)->GetMethodID(env, clazz, "getApplicationInfo", "()Landroid/content/pm/ApplicationInfo;");
-    jobject appInfo = (*env)->CallObjectMethod(env, activity->clazz, methodID);
-    jfieldID fieldID = (*env)->GetFieldID(env,
-        (*env)->GetObjectClass(env, appInfo), "nativeLibraryDir", "Ljava/lang/String;");
-    result = (*env)->GetObjectField(env, appInfo, fieldID);
-    str = (*env)->GetStringUTFChars(env, (jstring)result, &isCopy);
+    methodID = (*g_env)->GetMethodID(g_env, clazz, "getApplicationInfo", "()Landroid/content/pm/ApplicationInfo;");
+    jobject appInfo = (*g_env)->CallObjectMethod(g_env, activity->clazz, methodID);
+    jfieldID fieldID = (*g_env)->GetFieldID(g_env,
+        (*g_env)->GetObjectClass(g_env, appInfo), "nativeLibraryDir", "Ljava/lang/String;");
+    result = (*g_env)->GetObjectField(g_env, appInfo, fieldID);
+    str = (*g_env)->GetStringUTFChars(g_env, (jstring)result, &isCopy);
     LOGI("Looked up library code path: %s", str);
     setenv("ANDROID_LIB_PATH", str, 1);
diff --git a/recipes/plyer/recipe.sh b/recipes/plyer/recipe.sh
index 5d47356..f3321b3 100644
--- a/recipes/plyer/recipe.sh
+++ b/recipes/plyer/recipe.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 VERSION_plyer=${VERSION_plyer:-master}
 URL_plyer=https://github.com/kivy/plyer/zipball/$VERSION_plyer/plyer-$VERSION_plyer.zip
-DEPS_plyer=(pyjnius android)
+DEPS_plyer=(pyjnius)
 MD5_plyer=
 BUILD_plyer=$BUILD_PATH/plyer/$(get_directory $URL_plyer)
 RECIPE_plyer=$RECIPES_PATH/plyer