I tried fpcupdeluxe and it was wonderful!
I encountered a few minor problems. I list them below in case they might be helpful to others.
a. Initially fpcupdeluxe got stuck (not responding) at a random position during downloading. I needed to force exit and retry, but still could not make it to the end after several attempts. It seems to be internet related. Switching to Wifi (was wired) did the trick.
b. loading project demos\Console\ConsoleAppDemo1 crashed Lazarus ("" is not a valid integer). Avoid!
c. when loading any demo android projeccts (in ccr\lamw\demos\GUI), I got this message box:
Error. Gradle version is empty
That was solved by setting Gradle path thus: Tools|[LAMW] Android Module Wizard|Paths settings
d. when building said android projects, I got this error
Cannot find system used by [project name]. Make sure all ppu files of a package are in its output directory. ppu in wrong directory...
Changing Project Options|[LAMW] Android Project Options|Build|Chipset to ARMV7a+VFPv3 solved the problem. Orginal setting of ARMV7a+Soft won't work.
e. Building APK (Ant) failed when Target SDK version was set too low (e.g. Android-17).