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# Repo allowing -in a KISS way- to create a containered way to build an Android App APK
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## tl;dr
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to build an application
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1. modify the example minimal application source code found in
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```bash
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vim ./apk/Makefile
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vim ./apk/..... (other files)
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```
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2. run the compilation in the container (which is build via `Dockerfile` and `docker-compose.yml` upon first usage)
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```bash
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docker-compose run compile
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```
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this should result in the apk being build and be available at `./apk/app.apk`
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## Concepts and Ideals
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Many smart folks use [Android Studio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Studio) IDE to build
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Applications knowing the in and outs of what such an Android App amounts to. Sadly often the formerly
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mentioned Software also allows for many less experienced or even uninformed persons to end up with
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an Application, wiithout having had much or any insight what is really happening. The "comfort" and
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assistence and overhead of the "automagic" support of the IDE might have drawbacks such as
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- more complex and hence less understood build system
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- lower actual understanding of the build system
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- dependence on the toolset and being basically "spoon-fed"
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- lack of mastery and dominance and autonomy
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- needless loss of insight
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- ... (1001 further permutations of the previous criticisms)...
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To counteract this "generate an app via mouseclick", this repo strives to provide an alternative route
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to build an Android application, that via its "Hello World" app example should allow to
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- generate a "hello world" application (and extend/grow/modify that) easily via CLI
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- being portable and easily installable (hence the `docker compose`)
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- reuse Makefile as an often familiar concept of "recipe" way to build the application
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