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In connection to this: https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3918#c23

If SDL on Android is compiled with hidapi disabled an alert dialgo is displayed informing about missing hidapi.so

private HIDDeviceManager(final Context context) {
        mContext = context;

        // Make sure we have the HIDAPI library loaded with the native functions
        try {
            SDL.loadLibrary("hidapi");
        } catch (Throwable e) {
            Log.w(TAG, "Couldn't load hidapi: " + e.toString());

            AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(context);
            builder.setCancelable(false);
            builder.setTitle("SDL HIDAPI Error");
            builder.setMessage("Please report the following error to the SDL maintainers: " + e.getMessage());
            builder.setNegativeButton("Quit", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {


I suggest that there is some option for the user to easily disable the use of hidapi in SDLActivity.java I created a custom variable that I can set in a class that inherits from SDLActivity so that I don't have to modify SDLs own source code:

        if (isHIDAPIEnabled)
        {
            mHIDDeviceManager = HIDDeviceManager.acquire(this);
        }
Or maybe some other method could be employed like the Java code could query SDL for hidapi support and disable the above code automatically.