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              May 24, 2026 03:56
            
              
                Building Android APKs on arm64 (Raspberry Pi) with Gitea Actions and rootless Podman — including the aapt2 x86_64 workaround
              
          
    Building Android APKs on a Raspberry Pi with Gitea Actions and rootless Podman

A working pattern for self-hosted Android CI on arm64 hardware. This setup builds release APKs for Pixel-class devices without an emulator, runs entirely in rootless Podman under a Quadlet-managed systemd user unit, and works around the fact that Google still ships an x86_64-only aapt2 binary in the Android SDK build-tools.
Tested on a Raspberry Pi 5 (16 GB, NVMe) running Debian 13 trixie, with Gitea 1.24+ and gitea-runner 1.0.x. The pattern should generalize to any arm64 Linux host running rootless Podman.
The problem

Self-hosting Android CI on arm64 hardware sounds simple — install the SDK, run Gradle, profit. In practice there are several non-obvious obstacles:

  
## mergechapters.py
import datetime
import json
import os
import subprocess
import sys

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	import datetime
	import json
	import os
	import subprocess
	import sys

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