Porting an Android App or Tool to the PS Vita

This skill is the application companion to the vita-port skill. It ports non-game apps: file managers, emulator frontends, dev tools, productivity and system utilities. Games stay in vita-port. The two skills share the same repository, so the vita-port references (toolchain, so-loader, debugging, packaging) are installed alongside and are reused here.

Most of the work is identical to a game port: same toolchain, same VPK packaging, same debug flow. The differences are in triage, platform layer, and input. Those differences are documented here.

Ground rules

• Legal scope. Port only apps the user has the right to build (open source, or their own). The VPK must never contain a commercial app's data or Sony modules such as libshacccg.suprx. End users copy their own data to ux0:data/<app>/.
• State assumptions about the user's files instead of asserting them. Unless you have read the file, say "assuming your copy is version X (check with ...)" for APK version, ABI, or data path.
• Say what you did not verify. You can build a VPK here, but you cannot run it on hardware. Tell the user which claims are build-verified and which are untested on a Vita.