What is skia? Well, skia is used for drawing 2d graphics, and that is pretty important in Android.
More specifics can be read here at their website.
Essentially, it is used for making menus and drawings.
Now you are wondering why we are talking about it. Well, because we had an error:
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ninja: error: ‘out/target/product/h811/obj_arm/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libqc-skia_intermediates/libqc-skia.a’, needed by ‘out/target/product/h811/obj_arm/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libskia_intermediates/LINKED/libskia.so’, missing and no known rule to make it
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As it turns out, the open source skia project was forked and some closed material was added for specific hardware, like qcom boards. So, with a few edits in ./external/skia/Android.mk, we changed it to go back to using the open source method, rather than qual comm’s specific one. All that is lost is a little bit of efficiency on qcom chips, which is actually important, but not more important than working at all.
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#ifeq ($(BOARD_USES_QCOM_HARDWARE),true)
# LOCAL_WHOLE_STATIC_LIBRARIES += libqc-skia
#endif
# WJH
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A few comments here and there, keeping it from checking if the board is a qcom board allows us to build and use the open source variant. Simple!
Linux – keep it simple.