Filament Android Development, Deployment, and Benchmarking

This skill details the procedures for compiling binaries for Android, installing them onto a physical device or emulator, and running tests and benchmarks.

1. Compiling Release Build for Android

Android binaries should almost always be built in release mode for testing and benchmarking. To build the release version targeting the arm64-v8a architecture, and optionally enable Perfetto tracing (the -P flag, which is highly recommended during performance development):

./build.sh -q arm64-v8a -Pip android release

2. Deploying Binaries to an Android Device

Push the compiled executable (test or benchmark) to a writable temporary directory (such as /data/local/tmp) on the connected Android device using adb: