Thanks Dianne, i appreciate your help.
firstly i am not even sure how to do the single skin version you suggested,
unless i state that the resources names must not change which is something i
am not eager to do.
secondly, i was thinking (in terms of skins) to allow multiple skins at
once. so the user selects one or more skins and can see them (lets say i
have one default skin and then i click on a "change skin" button and change
it to the next one in line).
so my idea (and hopefully i will be able to post it here soon for everyone
to use) was to take all the relevant apks based on the intent-filter, and
show them to the user to be able to choose from, thus creating a list of
skin, for this i need to load the resources for the drawable and the layout
etc. (again, skins are just an example) from all the apks i got back from
the search.
as i said earlier, i may be missing something and there may be a much easier
way to do it in android
Thanks,
Yaron
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com>wrote:
> I'm not sure what this has to do with skinning. I don't know of any
> applications that scan for different resources for a skin; rather, you
> create a skin by replacing the existing (layout, drawable, etc) resource
> with a different one.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Spektor Yaron <spekt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> i know it is done somehow by other applications (for example adding new
>> skins to an existing application w/o knowing the name of the layout ahead of
>> time)
>> what am i missing here. is this not the way to do it?
>> should i copy all resources to the file system and read them from there?
>> would that make sense? would i be able to inflate a view with them this way?
>> Thanks,
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I don't believe there is any way to do that from an application. From a
>>> desktop, you can use the aapt dump commands to find out about the contents
>>> of the .apk.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Spektor Yaron <spekt...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> i was able to play around with the resource on a different apk and get
>>>> them using createPackageContext as you suggested.
>>>> here is an example of the code:
>>>> otherAppContext =
>>>> this.createPackageContext("com.android.demo.notepad2",Context.CONTEXT_INCLUDE_CODE
>>>> + Context.CONTEXT_IGNORE_SECURITY);
>>>> int resID = otherAppContext.getResources().getIdentifier("icon",
>>>> "drawable", "com.android.demo.notepad2");
>>>>
>>>> this works well.
>>>> now i am trying to get ALL the drawables (or all the layouts) in this
>>>> package. i tried a multitude of ways including reflection and AssetManager
>>>> but was unsuccessful. any tips here?
>>>> just to be clear i can not use R.drawable.icon as this is a different
>>>> context
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Yaron Spektor
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dianne Hackborn
>>> Android framework engineer
>>> hack...@android.com
>>>
>>> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
>>> provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such
>>> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
>>> answer them.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Yaron Spektor
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> hack...@android.com
>
> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such
> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
> answer them.
>
>
> >
>
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