Hello, The new SDK include multiple versions of the Android platforms. Because newer versions could have slightly different build steps, we have decide to keep most of the build logic inside the platforms themselves.
Thus, the new build.xml imports a file called android_rules.xml located inside SDK/platforms/<platform>/templates/ (it might move in the final SDK but you shouldn't care much). This file actually being imported is resolve in the first step of the build. The custom task <setup /> looks at the value loaded from "default.properties" which contains the target project (ie which platform/add-on the project is compiling for), and then import the proper rules file (after doing some properties init as well). If you want to change the rules to make them your own, I'd sugges to leave android_rules.xml unchanged, and instead copy the rules inside your build.xml file, *after* the <setup /> task. Additionally, change the setup task to <setup import="false"/>. This will let the custom task do the properties init but not do the import. Some of the target in the rules files are slightly different than before, with some using custom tasks as well. This is due to a new feature to generate multiple APKs from a single project (with different resources). You can either ignore this and reuse some of the previous target/task, or modify the custom task to do what you want (we're pushing the source used to generate this SDK on the git server today) Xav On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Ward Willats <goo...@wardco.com> wrote: > > 'Round these parts we don't use Eclipse and heavily customize our > build.xml file. The "android" tool tried to update it and burped out > a short, confused file. > > That's OK. Don't mind doing build.xml by hand and "target-ifying" it, > but I see what look like a whole set of Android-specific ANT > tasks/libs (prefs, apkbuilder, jarutil..), of which only <setup> went > into the new build.xml. > > So.....do I have to include any other custom ANT tasks besides > <setup>? Or can I just use more-or-less the same command lines as > before with aapt, javac, dx, etc...? > > And what are these "rules" setup uses? And where are they included from? > > Thanks > > -- Ward > > > > -- Xavier Ducrohet Android Engineer, Google. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
