{"id":2040,"date":"2011-10-18T20:32:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T19:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamlor.info\/wordpress\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2021-11-25T11:08:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T10:08:44","slug":"running-scala-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamlor.info\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/running-scala-on-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Scala on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"

For my little pet project Akka-Mobile<\/a> I need to run Scala on Android. In theory this is dead simple. However in practice there are some issues. When you simply add the Scala runtime library to an Android project you will get an error during dexing. The reason is that the Scala runtime library is just too large. The way to get around this issue is to remove the class-files which aren\u2019t required by your application. This is usually done with Proguard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Scala<\/a>

Scala on Android<\/p><\/div>\n

The Build Script<\/h2>\n

So you need to include Proguard in your build script. There are different ways to do it. I tried several existing build scripts from different people with mixed results. Finally I\u2019ve settled with a script from here<\/a>. This site contains a description and steps you need to take.<\/p>\n

Basically you can download the build-scala.xml<\/a> and the proguard-template<\/a> from that website. Then you add this task to the default build.xml, right below the \u2018setup\u2019-tag:<\/p>\n