Yes, I know this question has been asked many times before, but this is a real issue if you want to do any serious application development on Android.
We need an easy and simple way of bundling and loading the OpenCV libraries in an Android app. Depending on a different application (i.e., the OpenCV Manager) is plain stupid from a usability perspective, never mind the fact that I won't have full control of which library is loaded.
The size of the application is something we can deal with using other methods and shouldn't be of a concern for the OpenCV library as such.
This is the single most annoying thing about writing OpenCV apps on Android today. It is actually blocking my current progress on the Android platform.
What we need is the .so files available as separate downloads as well as a regular .jar containing the Java interfaces. This could all be packaged in the new .aar format now that it supports native libraries as well.
Any plans on making it possible for us to do this ourself or are you planning on releasing something like this in the near future?