Convert web app into an apk

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First let me say that cargo apk works surprisingly well. kudos!

Now to the point. I have a small web app in Rust that I would like to try in an android device. I have the following questions:

  1. What would be the right way to start the webserver and open the browser?

  2. How I use the assets? The example on https://github.com/tomaka/android-rs-glue/tree/master/examples/use_assets does not seem to work

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  1. That example is outdated. You need to add
[package.metadata.android]
assets = "<path-to-assets>"

to your Cargo.toml, like here: zoc/Cargo.toml at dbd4ea5ad6111c1e067c5e3a5e301fff75e66b53 · ozkriff/zoc · GitHub

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hey @hgrecco - did @ozkriff solution worked for you?

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I just realized that the version of cargo-apk and android_glue on crates.io were very old. I published new versions.

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@ozkriff and @tomaka. It works now. Thanks a lot. Any idea about the other question? My application starts a local web server and I want to open a browser pointing to it, and close the application when the browser is closed.