So I have a game that is written in pure C and only uses stdio.h, math.h and Allegro as my libraries. Right it it compiles under Visual Studio/Windows and GCC/Linux with no warnings, so it's as "pure" as it's going to get.

My goal was to port this to Android and iOS as it's interface benefits the most from a touch screen. I was porting this game from DOS and one of my goals was to get it into the most portable shape possible so generic C was the key. (With Allegro as the game lib)

I looked at the wiki for Allegro development for Android it looks outrageously complicated, and it's asking for... java?

I see that there is something called "Android Studio" which like an all in one solution. Any tips on how to start this?

Thank you, that has helps so much...

===EDIT===

Location for cmake data for Android Studio 3:

set(NATIVE_LIB native-lib)
set(JNI_FOLDER ../../../../../transforms/stripDebugSymbol/debug/0/lib)
include(build/intermediates/merged_assets/debug/mergeDebugAssets/out/jniIncludes/allegro.cmake)

(I found it )

I'm gonna borrow this thread since I have the same topic to discuss.

I created a new empty activity configured as described in https://github.com/liballeg/android , and it mostly works.

I'm having trouble getting it to find the JNI_INCLUDE folder and allegro.cmake though, or something else is wrong. It keeps failing on line 18 of allegro.cmake, which means the .so file was not found. I'm sure I set the JNI_INCLUDE directory correctly, but it still doesn't work.

So, these lines :

set(NATIVE_LIB native-lib)
set(JNI_FOLDER ../../jni)
include(libs/allegro5-release-5.2.4.1A/assets/jniIncludes/allegro.cmake)

don't work. That's exactly where everything is located after I unpacked the .aar file for allegro.

This is the error I'm getting :

Build command failed.  
Error while executing process E:\AndroidSDK\cmake\3.6.4111459\bin\cmake.exe with arguments {-HC:\Users\Marc\AndroidStudioProjects\HelloAllegro\app -BC:\Users\Marc\AndroidStudioProjects\HelloAllegro\app\.externalNativeBuild\cmake\debug\mips -DANDROID_ABI=mips -DANDROID_PLATFORM=android-15 -DCMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY=C:\Users\Marc\AndroidStudioProjects\HelloAllegro\app\build\intermediates\cmake\debug\obj\mips -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DANDROID_NDK=E:\AndroidSDK\ndk-bundle -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-std=c++11 -frtti -fexceptions -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=E:\AndroidSDK\ndk-bundle\build\cmake\android.toolchain.cmake -DCMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM=E:\AndroidSDK\cmake\3.6.4111459\bin\ninja.exe -GAndroid Gradle - Ninja}  
CMake Error at libs/allegro5-release-5.2.4.1A/assets/jniIncludes/allegro.cmake:18 (message):  
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!  
See also "C:/Users/Marc/AndroidStudioProjects/HelloAllegro/app/.externalNativeBuild/cmake/debug/mips/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

It gives the same error for every architecture, and CMakeOutput.log is not helpful to me.

It's under c:\users\me\AndroidStudioProjects\HelloAllegro\app under

libs/allegro5-release-5.2.4.1A/assets/jniIncludes/allegro.cmake

EDIT

EDIT
I pretty much solved it. It was trying to build the mips and mips64 architectures, which aren't supported, nor do they come with allegro's binaries. To fix this, I changed my app/build.gradle file and added this :

android {
    buildTypes {
        all {
            ndk {
//                abiFilters "mips" , "mips64"
                abiFilters "arm64-v8a" , "armeabi" , "armeabi-v7a" , "x86" , "x86_64"
            }
        }
    }
}

And now I have a yellow screen fading to red and back. Yay! \o/