Mark, Thanks for the information.
Kevin On Feb 14, 4:42 am, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > kevin wrote: > > I am working on couple android applications whichsharea common > >component. Thecomponenthas Activities, Service and own > > AndroidManifest.xml. After research, it seems there is no concept of > > run timesharelibrary among applications in Android. So I am looking > > for a way to linked thesharecomponentwith other applications at > > compile time. > > > Applications which will use thecomponentcan come from external, > > therefore I will only provided the compiled file. I would like to > > build thecomponentinto own apk or jar file, can external application > > include my jar/apk file into their package and be able to start my > > activity? > > JAR, yes. It is possible to build Android-aware JARs, containing only > classes compiled against the Android SDK JAR. Those Android-aware JARs > can define activities, services, etc. Those Android-aware JARs can, in > turn, be put in the libs/ directory of an Android APK project and be > compiled in. > > A couple of limits: > > -- You cannot define resources in Android-aware JARs, because resources > are packaged in APKs, not JARs. To compensate, refactor your API to > accept resource IDs as parameters, so the calling application can supply > you with resource IDs to use. > > -- You cannot declare a manifest in Android-aware JARs, because the > manifest is packaged in the APK. This means your calling application > will need to declare any JAR-provided activities, services, etc. on your > behalf. > > My book-in-progress _The Busy Coder's Guide to *Advanced* Android > Development_ has a section on this technique. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com > _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.0 Published! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
