PySide6 4 Android

• requires Linux or WSL

Preparations

• Install Qt: wget https://download.qt.io/official_releases/online_installers/qt-unified-linux-x64-online.run
  • chmod +x qt-unified-linux-x64-online.run
  • ./qt-unified-linux-x64-online.run
  • to $HOME or /opt
• Fix missing qaudio_wrapper.cpp:
  • in ../pyside-setup/sources/pyside6/PySide6/QtMultimedia/CMakesLists.txt remove line with qaudio_wrapper.cpp for it is no longer used
• Follow to build: https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython-6/deployment/deployment-pyside6-android-deploy.html#cross-compile-android
  • if echo $PYTHONPATH shows global path instead of the path to the venv, use unset PYTHONPATH
  • install additional dependencies like GitPython, Jinja2 and tqdm
  • change PySideHelpers.cmake and add WebView to the optional modules for on Android it does not rely on the WebEngineCore
  • Wrap around Macros/PySideModules.cmake if(${module_DEPS}) closure with if (NOT module_NAME STREQUAL "QtWebView")
  • compile for aarch64, armv7a, x86_64, i686
  • if global python version is not picked up properly, remove /usr/bin/python3 and create new symlink to fitting python version sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3.11 /usr/bin/python3