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+Title: October 2016 recap
+Date: 2016-11-19 00:00
+Category: News
+Slug: 2016-october-recap
+Lang: en
+
+![October recap][screenshot]
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+
+This article describes how we spent a month building OpenSceneGraph (OSG) for Android: the first attempt to build OSG, the search for OSG alternatives, and the success in building OSG.
+
+**First attempt to build OSG.**
+
+Having no prior knowledge of Android development, we grabbed the latest Android Studio and started doing beginner tutorials.
+We passed Java part pretty fast. Everything worked out of the box. Then came C++ part and related problems.
+
+**CMake. **To work with C++, Android Studio uses custom CMake, which conflicts with the system one. This was a clear indication that we had to set up a separate development environment specifically for Android.
+
+**KVM. **We got Ubuntu under VirtualBox installed. All went fine until we tried to use Android Emulator. Turned out, VirtualBox could not run Android Emulator, because a virtual machine cannot provide kernel virtualization inside already virtualized environment.
+
+**Chroot for Android. **Since we had a successful experience with chroot to build OGS Editor before, we decided to place Android development environment into chroot. With minor tweaking, we could finally run Android Emulator and build C++ project.
+
+**OSG. **Building OSG seemed like a piece of cake at the time. However, all we got was a crash. Thinking that we got it wrong the first time, we tried to rebuild OSG once again. And the same crash again.
+Searching for the problem did not reveal any hint.
+Nobody helped us at the OSG mailing list.
+
+We were in despair.
+
+**The search for OSG alternatives.**
+
+Since OSG community did not help us, we decided to search for an alternative open source project to fit our Android needs (and may be more).
+
+And we found it: [BabylonHX](http://babylonhx.gamestudiohx.com/). The home page looked awesome: it rendered WebGL in the background!
+We thought we finally found the gem we were looking for. However, the example on the home page simply did not work.
+
+You can probably understand our feelings at the time.
+
+**The success in building OSG.**
+
+We realized nobody would make OSG work under Android for us. We had to do it ourselves.
+
+Since [OSG 3.4 document](http://www.openscenegraph.org/index.php/documentation/platform-specifics/android/178-building-openscenegraph-for-android-3-4) on building for Android was very short, we no longer trusted it and headed to [original OSG 3.0 document](http://www.openscenegraph.org/index.php/documentation/platform-specifics/android/44-building-openscenegraph-for-android-3-0-3-0-1).
+While following it, we faced a dead link to third party dependencies.
+The search for an alternative download link lead us to a [2013 tutorial](https://xinyustudio.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/install-osg-for-android-on-ubuntu-13-04-step-by-step-tutorials/) on building OSG 3.0 for Android.
+
+After following the tutorial, we finally got OSG to run under Android!
+But there was a nuance: both OSG and Android tools used in the tutorial were ancient.
+In a few days, we gradually updated both OSG and Android tools to their latest versions.
+
+During the update process, we learned two things that prevented us from having OSG to work in the first place:
+
+* Android API headers changed in NDK r12
+* OSG only works as a static library under Android
+
+
+
+That's it for describing how we spent the month building OSG for Android: the first attempt to build OSG, the search for OSG alternatives, and the success in building OSG.
+
+[screenshot]: {attach}/images/2016-11-19_2016-october-recap.png
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