docker-android-build

A all-in-one Docker ready image to build Android locally. Requires Linux or macOS with Docker.

Deploying and running our container

To create and run our container, we can use the following command syntax:

docker run -it --name <container_name> --hostname <hostname> -v <local_repo>:/repo -v <local_ccache>:/tmp/ccache --rm divadsn/android-build:latest

Now you are probably wondering what those arguments mean, right? Let me explain.

Argument	Description
-it	Allows docker to allocate a tty for the container process
--name <container_name>	Identification name for our container
--hostname <hostname>	Sets the specified name as containers hostname
-v src:dest	Mounts src path on host or volume to dest path on container
--rm	Cleans up the container and removes after exit

Example when using volumes:

docker run -it --name build --hostname buildbot -v build_repo:/repo -v build_ccache:/tmp/ccache --rm divadsn/android-build:latest

Example when using bind mounts:

docker run -it --name build --hostname buildbot -v /home/${USER}/build/repo:/repo -v /home/${USER}/build/ccache:/tmp/ccache --rm divadsn/android-build:latest

After the container has been created, you should be greeted with a message about sudo access and you should be able to execute commands as user docker in directory /repo. Now you can go ahead and initialize your local repository using repo init and sync the sources, everything is setup to be ready to use.