pretty boring post. basically followed this tutorial

1. make sure you have the build toolssudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk
sudo apt-get install icedtea-plugin

2. install android sdk
3. install android ndk
4. add adt tools to your path and .bashrc
5. build tess-two
   git clone git://github.com/rmtheis/tess-two tess
   cd tess/tess-two
   ndk-build
   fix target in project.properties
   android update project –path .
   ant release
6. build eyes-two
   cd ../eyes-two/
   ndk-build
   fix target in project.properties
   android update project –path .
   ant release
7. build simple-android ocr
   git clone https://github.com/GautamGupta/Simple-Android-OCR.git Simple-Android-OCR
   go change target version in properties file
   point the project at the tess two install path
8. I had trouble getting my phone to allow the debug connection. “adb devices” would either return nothing or the device serial number as question marks or the status as unauthorized. I tried several combinations of restarting adb along with restarting the phone, unplugging and replugging, disabling / enabling dev mode. I think is what finally did it was removing all currently authorised computers from my phone.

   ANDROID_SDK_HOME=~/adt-bundle-linux-x86-20140702/sdk
   export ANDROID_SDK_HOME
   and add to .bashrc
   2015 adb kill-server
   2016 adb start-server
   2017 adb devices

9. open eclipse, right click on simple ocr project and run as android application.
10. success!