Android SDK headless install for Linux Jenkins CI

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# sudo su -
# apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk
# apt-get install ant1.8

Source control, in this case svn:

# apt-get install subversion

Install Jenkins

# wget -q -O - http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/debian/jenkins-ci.org.key | sudo apt-key add -
# echo "deb http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/debian binary/" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins.list
# aptitude update
# aptitude install jenkins

Android sdk

# mkdir /android
# cd /android
# wget http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r16-linux.tgz
# tar xzvf android-sdk_r16-linux.tgz
[make sure jenkins has permissions for this directory]
[edit path in etc/bash.bashrc to include /android/android-sdk-linux/tools]
# /android/android-sdk-linux/tools/android update sdk --no-ui
[this will download all supported sdks which is probably overkill even for a build machine]
[to limit which sdks get downloaded use a filter as explained by help: android -h update]

Grab the project

# svn co http://server/path

maybe update projects

# android update project -p [path to project]

Having an android group and adding the jenkins user to it, is a reasonably simple way to sort out permission issues. Perhaps better to have android sdk installed to /usr/local/share/ but that's just my preference.

I'd suggest using /opt path as it is meaningfull to do it like that, and permissions setting depends on what will be using android sdk. Using android:android for sdk folder, adding jenkins to android group and adding tools and platform-tools to PATH only in android user, not to pollute global PATH or bring security risk