[gentoo-user] Android studio emulator without PulseAudio

[gentoo-user] Android studio emulator without PulseAudio

[Pouru Lasse]

Is it possible to run the emulator included with Android Studio without
having PulseAudio installed? When I try to launch the emulator, it
instantly crashes because it can't find libpulse.so.0. My QEMU package
is compiled without PulseAudio, but Android SDK comes with its own
version of QEMU.

Setting QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none, as instructed in Android Studio manual,
seems to have no effect, and the Gentoo wiki page on Android Studio just
tells you to install PulseAudio.

I don't mind having no audio at all, I just don't want to install
PulseAudio. Any options?

- Lasse

Re: [gentoo-user] Android studio emulator without PulseAudio

[Davyd McColl]

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Would apulse not do the trick?

-d
On 2018-10-30 11:15:14, Pouru Lasse <lasse.pouru@edu.turkuamk.fi> wrote:

Is it possible to run the emulator included with Android Studio without
having PulseAudio installed? When I try to launch the emulator, it
instantly crashes because it can't find libpulse.so.0. My QEMU package
is compiled without PulseAudio, but Android SDK comes with its own
version of QEMU.

Setting QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none, as instructed in Android Studio manual,
seems to have no effect, and the Gentoo wiki page on Android Studio just
tells you to install PulseAudio.

I don't mind having no audio at all, I just don't want to install
PulseAudio. Any options?

- Lasse


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Re: [gentoo-user] Android studio emulator without PulseAudio

[Pouru Lasse]

"Davyd McColl" <davydm@gmail.com> writes:

> Would apulse not do the trick?
>
> -d
> On 2018-10-30 11:15:14, Pouru Lasse <lasse.pouru@edu.turkuamk.fi> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to run the emulator included with Android Studio without
> having PulseAudio installed? When I try to launch the emulator, it
> instantly crashes because it can't find libpulse.so.0. My QEMU package
> is compiled without PulseAudio, but Android SDK comes with its own
> version of QEMU.
>
> Setting QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none, as instructed in Android Studio manual,
> seems to have no effect, and the Gentoo wiki page on Android Studio just
> tells you to install PulseAudio.
>
> I don't mind having no audio at all, I just don't want to install
> PulseAudio. Any options?
>
> - Lasse

I already had apulse installed, but apparently the emulator doesn't look
for the library in the right directory. I copied all the libpulse.*
files under ~/Android/Sdk/emulator/lib/ and
~/Android/Sdk/emulator/lib64/ and now it seems to work.

- Lasse

Re: [gentoo-user] Android studio emulator without PulseAudio

[Andrew Savchenko]

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On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:53:33 +0000 Pouru Lasse wrote:
> "Davyd McColl" <davydm@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Would apulse not do the trick?
> >
> > -d
> > On 2018-10-30 11:15:14, Pouru Lasse <lasse.pouru@edu.turkuamk.fi> wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to run the emulator included with Android Studio without
> > having PulseAudio installed? When I try to launch the emulator, it
> > instantly crashes because it can't find libpulse.so.0. My QEMU package
> > is compiled without PulseAudio, but Android SDK comes with its own
> > version of QEMU.
> >
> > Setting QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none, as instructed in Android Studio manual,
> > seems to have no effect, and the Gentoo wiki page on Android Studio just
> > tells you to install PulseAudio.
> >
> > I don't mind having no audio at all, I just don't want to install
> > PulseAudio. Any options?
> >
> > - Lasse
> 
> I already had apulse installed, but apparently the emulator doesn't look
> for the library in the right directory. I copied all the libpulse.*
> files under ~/Android/Sdk/emulator/lib/ and
> ~/Android/Sdk/emulator/lib64/ and now it seems to work.

You should run emulator as:
$ apulse command_to_run_emulator

Or install the latest apulse with USE=sdk.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko

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Re: [gentoo-user] Android studio emulator without PulseAudio

[Pouru Lasse]

Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:53:33 +0000 Pouru Lasse wrote:
>> "Davyd McColl" <davydm@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Would apulse not do the trick?
>> >
>> > -d
>> > On 2018-10-30 11:15:14, Pouru Lasse <lasse.pouru@edu.turkuamk.fi> wrote:
>> >
>> > Is it possible to run the emulator included with Android Studio without
>> > having PulseAudio installed? When I try to launch the emulator, it
>> > instantly crashes because it can't find libpulse.so.0. My QEMU package
>> > is compiled without PulseAudio, but Android SDK comes with its own
>> > version of QEMU.
>> >
>> > Setting QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none, as instructed in Android Studio manual,
>> > seems to have no effect, and the Gentoo wiki page on Android Studio just
>> > tells you to install PulseAudio.
>> >
>> > I don't mind having no audio at all, I just don't want to install
>> > PulseAudio. Any options?
>> >
>> > - Lasse
>> 
>> I already had apulse installed, but apparently the emulator doesn't look
>> for the library in the right directory. I copied all the libpulse.*
>> files under ~/Android/Sdk/emulator/lib/ and
>> ~/Android/Sdk/emulator/lib64/ and now it seems to work.
>
> You should run emulator as:
> $ apulse command_to_run_emulator
>
> Or install the latest apulse with USE=sdk.
>
> Best regards,
> Andrew Savchenko

What exactly is the purpose of the sdk USE flag? To provide the files
required for development with PulseAudio? Compiling apulse with the sdk
flag had no noticeable effect on Android Studio, but it did cause Unity
(the game engine) to crash at startup. I'm not sure if this is a problem
with Unity (happened with all versions I tested) or the apulse package.

- Lasse

Re: [gentoo-user] Android studio emulator without PulseAudio

[Andrew Savchenko]

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On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 17:21:14 +0000 Pouru Lasse wrote:
> Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org> writes:
[...]
> > You should run emulator as:
> > $ apulse command_to_run_emulator
> >
> > Or install the latest apulse with USE=sdk.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Andrew Savchenko
> 
> What exactly is the purpose of the sdk USE flag? To provide the files
> required for development with PulseAudio?

To install apulse as a (partial) replacement of PulseAudio: it
installs header files, pkgconfig files and places libraries at
standard system paths, so that apulse wrapper is no longer needed.

However, apulse is not a full PA replacement by design, so this
will work only with limited set of applications.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko

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