Android Dev
- You at least need the android SDK to build Android apks
- You can use the 'android' command-line tool to create a new project
without having to install Android Studio:android create project -a <main activity> -k <package.name> -t <android-target> -n <app name> -p <project directory>
- The tool is in the SDK
- You can list available android targets with
android list targets
- Alijandro on StackOverflow explained how to build an APK without using Gradle
- They generously included a link to their bash script demonstrating the technique
- They also link to two other articles 1 2 about it.