I've been learning a lot about tauri from this adventure. Musicat now "runs" on Android, as in the UI renders and can be interacted with, however a non-starter that prevents this from being functional is tauri's lack of support for folder selection on mobile (see https://v2.tauri.app/plugin/dialog/#build-a-file-selector-dialog). As such, I don't know if playback works.

It was quite an journey, mostly due to the complexities of compiling so many different binaries for Android. Notably, reqwest's usage of openssl-sys as seen:

1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78989130/why-when-trying-to-run-tauri-for-android-it-fails-because-openssl-was-not-found
2. Failure to find appropriate headers on Ubuntu 24.04 despite having libssl-dev installed rust-openssl/rust-openssl#2217
3. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78989130/why-when-trying-to-run-tauri-for-android-it-fails-because-openssl-was-not-found (This was the solution)

Turns out the "rustls-tls" feature of reqwest just works around this problem by not using openssl (see https://docs.rs/reqwest/latest/reqwest/#optional-features).

Secondly, cpal's usage of oboe was missing parts of the cpp standard library as seen:

1. https://cjycode.com/flutter_rust_bridge/manual/troubleshooting#could-not-resolve-symbol-__cxa_pure_virtual-or-libc_shared-issues
2. https://users.rust-lang.org/t/neon-electron-undefined-symbol-cxa-pure-virtual/21223
3. Using cpal in a library for android causes an error RustAudio/cpal#720
4. Android failed to load dynamic library: dlopen failed: library "libc++shared.so" not found RustAudio/cpal#900
5. Solution was cpal = { version = "0.15.3", default-features = false, features = ["oboe-shared-stdcxx"] }

These were the most frustrating as the error messages were most cryptic. (the second one was especially annoying as it was only see when running the app on an Android emulator).

Some additional miscellaneous issues include:

1. No menus for settings and such
2. No window decorations/resize events
3. No miniplayer
4. No logging (no such file or directory for log4rs.yml, TODO: Include as resource, preferred to use native logging impl like logcat but I'm not sure tauri supports that)

Some additional notes for getting up and running for Android:

1. Start by following these instructions from tauri
2. Add the NDK bins to your path: export export PATH="$PATH:$NDK_HOME/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin/" or equivalent for your operating system.
3. Run npm run tauri android build
4. Create an Android Virtual Device (AVD), I'd recommend Google Pixel 7 Pro
5. npm run tauri android dev is supposed to launch it, see if this works for you

If it doesn't (it only worked for me once), there are a few extra steps:

1. Generate dummy key keytool -genkey -v -keystore key.keystore -alias key -keyalg RSA -validity 10000 (you don't have to fill any info except password like demodemo
2. Sign your unsigned apk apksigner sign --ks key.keystore --out signed-app.apk src-tauri/gen/android/app/build/outputs/apk/universal/release/app-universal-release-unsigned.apk
3. Launch the AVD from Android Studio
4. adb install signed-app.apk
5. Start the app from the AVD window

It's not exactly a simple process yet, but tauri still seems like the best solution for an easy to iterate cross-platform application. The complexities of rust building and linking for all the different platforms doesn't make it any easier (though it can make apps faster). I'll reference this in a pull request with the changes where we can discuss the feasibility of this (or feel free to disregard it, as it does create significant maintenance burden). I'm mostly doing this in preparation for creating my own app larger app with tauri and this has been a fairly interesting way to learn about the framework and maybe pre-solve some of the challenges I'll face.

Anyways, sorry for this beefy issue, if I had more time I'd make it shorter. FYI I'll probably just leave this issue be for a while to work on other things.