Most platform apps are built directly against the internal Android API, not against the SDK API. Since they're built at part of system images they're tightly coupled with the internal platform and can (and do) evolve as the internal APIs change.
The build system also has the ability to build apps against the SDK API. It'd be good if more apps could be built that way. Are you volunteering? JBQ On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:38 AM, momo <[email protected]> wrote: > > @hide is probably an android annotation used to hide methods from the > public SDK. If I wanted to use one of these methods, would I go > uncomment this, recompile the SDK, and use it? > > I noticed that there are internal apps that do use these hidden > methods. How are they able to do it? > > If I don't care about incompatibility, is it possible to use them w/ > out recompiling the SDK? > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Android Engineer, Google. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android-framework" 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-framework?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
