You'll have to tell us more about your build process. Generally I simply stick them in libs/ or do something more elaborate with custom rules.
I'm honestly not seeing what your problem is, and still not seeing why you need a class loader, in my experience if you can do things statically it's best to do them that way.. kris On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Lindley <lindl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm aware of the security concerns. > > Anyway, I've gotten it working in Eclipse by removing the project dependency > under "Reference" on the Android tab of the project properties, and just > setting that the project is required in the Java Build Path tab (not > exported). > > However, even though Eclipse now builds cleaning, ant does not. I'm not an > ant expert. Any ideas how to do the same thing there? I need both to work. > > On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 5:02:35 PM UTC-4, Kristopher Micinski wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Lindley <lind...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I would prefer not to make it statically linked because I am not the one >> > writing the plugins. Each plugin is potentially going to be on a >> > different >> > branch of a repository, and I would like to code to continue working >> > without >> > undue hardship when I switch branches. Different versions of the project >> > files specifying static dependencies on each branch is an option, but >> > not a >> > good one. >> > >> > Where the classes will be loaded from is precisely the issue. >> > DexClassLoader >> > can either take a jar containing a classes.dex or an apk. I mentioned >> > both >> > options in the original post. I'm fairly certain I can get things >> > working >> > using the jar approach, but it is inelegant in some respects. I prefer >> > the >> > paradigm of installing an apk to install a plugin, and therefore I need >> > to >> > figure out how to explicitly exclude certain dependencies from being >> > included in the apk. >> > >> >> But what you didn't mention is the distribution scheme for these >> plugins. If they will be distributed along with the APK then perhaps >> it's fine, but if they're going to be sent over the network you need >> to be a little more careful, loading and running potentially random >> code isn't a good idea, though if it's checksummed.. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
