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On a computer with a MIPS architecture (e.g. a Lemotoe Yeeloong), running GNU/Linux, is it possible to install and run the necessary tools for developing Android apps for deployment on smartphones?

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    I don't have enough for a full answer, but I don't see why it would be much different from any other cross-compiling situation. Lots of smartphone development is done by cross-compiling to ARM on Intel or AMD64.
    – user
    Dec 18, 2013 at 13:15

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I don't own a MIPS system, but would think so1 -- a key requirement of android dev is the adb utility, which turns up in the Debian MIPS distribution.

That's not everything that's required, and android doesn't use a normal java SDK either. Their site annoyingly just lists 32-bit glibc as a requirement for the "Linux" version of the ADT bundle (that's everything), implying it was compiled for x86 machines (it runs on 64-bit with 32-bit libs).

However, you are in luck, because Android is totally open source, including the dev tools:

http://source.android.com/

There are build instructions there, etc. I think that little laptop will have its hands full -- have fun!

1. I believe Android runs on MIPS devices, although of course that doesn't help you here.

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    adb is only one tool among many. Gcc should be easy. But the rest… if nobody's tried it before, I doubt that it'll work without some major hunting of non-portable constructs in millions of lines of code.
    – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
    Dec 19, 2013 at 0:25

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