Work around http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23351

README.cross

@@ -395,18 +395,6 @@ window, and you probably also want to have set the stdout and stderr
 of app processes to be redirected to logcat ("adb shell stop; adb
 shell setprop log.redirect-stdio true; adb shell start").
 
-Unfortunately you might notice that the command line passed to "adb
-shell am start" is too long (actually, not "command line" as such, but
-the length of the so-called "extra" arguments passed to the action, or
-something like that, see Android bug
-http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23351 , so you need
-to shorten it somehow... for instance by creating a symlink to
-/data/data/org.libreoffice.android.qa.sc in /system: "adb remount; adb
-shell ln -s /data/data/org.libreoffice.android.qa.sc /system/sc" and
-then use that shorter path /system/sc snippet in all places instead of
-the longer /data/data/org.libreoffice.android.qa.sc on the "adb shell
-am start" command line.
-
 To debug, do manually what "make run" would do, adding args "-e
 lo-main-delay 20" to the command line, and when the app has started,
 run ndk-gdb. Unfortunately the gdb in NDK r7 is broken, use the one in

android/Bootstrap/src/org/libreoffice/android/Bootstrap.java

@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ import android.util.Log;
 
 import fi.iki.tml.CommandLine;
 
+import java.io.File;
+import java.util.Scanner;
+
 // We override NativeActivity so that we can get at the intent of the
 // activity and its extra parameters, that we use to tell us what
 // actual LibreOffice "program" to run. I.e. something that on desktop
@@ -111,9 +114,22 @@ public class Bootstrap extends NativeActivity
         // Get "command line" to pass to the LO "program"
         String cmdLine = getIntent().getStringExtra("lo-main-cmdline");
 
-        if (cmdLine == null)
-            cmdLine = "/data/data/org.libreoffice.android/lib/libqa_sal_types.so";
-
+        if (cmdLine == null) {
+            String indirectFile = getIntent().getStringExtra("lo-main-indirect-cmdline");
+
+            if (indirectFile != null) {
+                try {
+                    // Somewhat stupid but short way to read a file into a string
+                    cmdLine = new Scanner(new File(indirectFile), "UTF-8").useDelimiter("\\A").next();
+                }
+                catch (java.io.FileNotFoundException e) {
+                    Log.i(TAG, String.format("Could not read %s: %s",indirectFile, e.toString()));
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (cmdLine == null)
+                cmdLine = "/data/data/org.libreoffice.android/lib/libqa_sal_types.so";
+        }
         // argv[0] will be replaced by android_main() in lo-bootstrap.c by the
         // pathname of the mainLibrary.
         cmdLine = "dummy-program-name " + cmdLine;

android/qa/sc/Makefile

@@ -162,7 +162,9 @@ uninstall:
 	adb uninstall $(APP_PACKAGE)
 
 run:
-	adb shell am start -n $(APP_PACKAGE)/$(BOOTSTRAP) -e lo-main-library libcppunittester -e lo-main-cmdline "$(APP_DATA_PATH)/lib/libtest_sc_ucalc.so --headless --protector libunoexceptionprotector.so unoexceptionprotector '-env:CONFIGURATION_LAYERS=xcsxcu:file:///assets/xml/registry' '-env:UNO_TYPES=file:///assets/bin/udkapi.rdb file:///assets/bin/types.rdb'  '-env:UNO_SERVICES=file:///assets/xml/ure/services.rdb  file:///assets/ComponentTarget/framework/util/fwk.component file:///assets/ComponentTarget/i18npool/util/i18npool.component file:///assets/ComponentTarget/sfx2/util/sfx.component file:///assets/ComponentTarget/unoxml/source/service/unoxml.component file:///assets/ComponentTarget/configmgr/source/configmgr.component file:///assets/xml/ucb1.component file:///assets/xml/ucpfile1.component' -env:URE_INTERNAL_LIB_DIR=file://$(APP_DATA_PATH)/lib -env:LO_LIB_DIR=file://$(APP_DATA_PATH)/lib" 
+	echo "$(APP_DATA_PATH)/lib/libtest_sc_ucalc.so --headless --protector libunoexceptionprotector.so unoexceptionprotector '-env:CONFIGURATION_LAYERS=xcsxcu:file:///assets/xml/registry' '-env:UNO_TYPES=file:///assets/bin/udkapi.rdb file:///assets/bin/types.rdb'  '-env:UNO_SERVICES=file:///assets/xml/ure/services.rdb  file:///assets/ComponentTarget/framework/util/fwk.component file:///assets/ComponentTarget/i18npool/util/i18npool.component file:///assets/ComponentTarget/sfx2/util/sfx.component file:///assets/ComponentTarget/unoxml/source/service/unoxml.component file:///assets/ComponentTarget/configmgr/source/configmgr.component file:///assets/xml/ucb1.component file:///assets/xml/ucpfile1.component' -env:URE_INTERNAL_LIB_DIR=file://$(APP_DATA_PATH)/lib -env:LO_LIB_DIR=file://$(APP_DATA_PATH)/lib" >cmdline
+	adb push cmdline $(APP_DATA_PATH)/cmdline
+	adb shell am start -n $(APP_PACKAGE)/$(BOOTSTRAP) -e lo-main-library libcppunittester -e lo-main-indirect-cmdline "$(APP_DATA_PATH)/cmdline" 
 
 clean:
 	ant clean