Packaging android executables

[resucutie]

Is it possible to package the application as an android executable?

pkg only lists alphine, linux, macOS and windows as its target platforms, but there are no mentions of android platforms such as android and iOS

This could be useful for deploying embedded node servers on mobile devices without including an entire node executable. Other bundlers such as bun or deno offer no support or require patches for such

[robertsLando]

That would require building a patched nodejs exe for android first, you could try...

[resucutie]

Do you have any resources I can look at to ease this process and give me a path if I want to actually do that?

[robertsLando]

Check https://github.com/yao-pkg/pkg-fetch and ask copilot/claude/codex to help you building nodejs patch for android to be used by pkg for the build process.

[resucutie]

I may reuse patches from termux's packages but thatd prob cause a license violation. For a PoC it'll be good enough. Thanks for the resource anyway