Agreed Kris.. but with the absence of URLClassLoader, I was just curious if you could download a class and load it with this approach. I would not want to load code like this either on a phone given the multitude ways it could crash the phone.. and make your app look bad.
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Kristopher Micinski <[email protected] > wrote: > You really don't want to do this, it won't work (because Dalvik is not > something that takes a jar) and is horrible security practice. > > In general, you should always be very skeptical when you run code you > got from somewhere else: big security problems pop up. > > Kris > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Kevin Duffey <[email protected]> wrote: > > couldn't you download a jar or class file other ways then use this to > load > > it? > > > > On Jan 8, 2013 9:19 AM, "Mark Murphy" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> You mean, besides the fact that URLClassLoader doesn't work with > >> Dalvik files (AFAIK) and that loading a library directly from the > >> network is totally insecure? > >> > >> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Jan Burse <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > Dear All, > >> > > >> > I am just read: > >> > > >> > Provides a simple ClassLoader implementation that operates > >> > on a list of files and directories in the local file system, > >> > but does not attempt to load classes from the network. Android > >> > uses this class for its system class loader and for its > >> > application class loader(s). > >> > > >> > > >> > > http://developer.android.com/reference/dalvik/system/PathClassLoader.html > >> > > >> > Does this mean I cannot use the URLClassLoader on Android with > >> > URLs that have for example the schema http:// ? > >> > > >> > Bye > >> > > >> > -- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> > Groups "Android Developers" group. > >> > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> > [email protected] > >> > For more options, visit this group at > >> > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > >> http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > >> http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > >> > >> Localized Android Question-and-Answer Sites: http://www.andglobe.com > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> Groups "Android Developers" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected] > >> 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 [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > 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 [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
