Thank you! That mechanism will help greatly. I'm sorry I didn't just
ask that question first. I know what I was wanting to do was not
recommended but I didn't know of any other option.

On Feb 16, 4:35 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> No it isn't, and simply and plain do NOT do that.  You can reference private
> resources from other packages with "@*android:type/name".
>
> And you can' t just make up new resource IDs that you want.  The numbers
> have very specific meanings -- for example the number "0x02080000" you want
> to use is a number in the range that will be used for loaded shared
> libraries.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Nick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Since the support of shared resources is not supported, my only option
> > left is to include it in public.xml.  To prevent future compatibility
> > problems with stock Android resources, I wanted to start my resources
> > in a different range to prevent stepping on any future resources that
> > are added after mine. For example, I wanted to place my drawables
> > starting at range "0x02080000". However, it appears that the build
> > process requires all the public.xml stay in the same range for each
> > resource type (i.e. drawables start with "0x0103").
>
> > I'm willing to add this support in and submit it back to the project,
> > but I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of where
> > this checking is done?
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Nick
>
> > On Feb 10, 8:26 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I don't know, sorry.
>
> > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Nick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > That's fine...I wanted to make sure there wasn't another way from what
> > > > I was doing.
>
> > > > Is this issue in the Android bug/issue tracking system?
>
> > > > On Feb 10, 4:19 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > Sorry true shared libraries are not supported right now, largely due
> > to
> > > > the
> > > > > lack of support for linking to resources outside of the framework.  I
> > > > don't
> > > > > have an ETA on when this feature will be in the platform, though it's
> > > > > clearly something we want.
>
> > > > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Nick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > If I understand the current framework correctly, it is possible to
> > > > > > share resources to be used in new Java libraries (not those
> > included
> > > > > > in the open source project) by placing them in with the other
> > Android
> > > > > > framework resources.
>
> > > > > > However, I've only found one way to share these resources across
> > > > > > packages.  I can modify the public.xml file in
> > frameworks/base/core/
> > > > > > res/res/values/ and expose the resources that the applications
> > need.
> > > > > > This is not ideal since my resources are now part of android.R.*,
> > > > > > which potentially has backward compatibility problems if the open
> > > > > > source project exposes new resources that overlap my previously
> > > > > > defined resources.
>
> > > > > > Is there another way to make these resources available to packages
> > > > > > without making them part of android.R?
>
> > > > > > NOTE - All the packages that will need these resources will be part
> > of
> > > > > > the system image so I don't need to expose them to external
> > packages.
>
> > > > > > Thanks,
>
> > > > > > Nick
>
> > > > > --
> > > > > Dianne Hackborn
> > > > > Android framework engineer
> > > > > [email protected]
>
> > > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time
> > to
> > > > > provide private support.  All such questions should be posted on
> > public
> > > > > forums, where I and others can see and answer them.
>
> > > --
> > > Dianne Hackborn
> > > Android framework engineer
> > > [email protected]
>
> > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> > > provide private support.  All such questions should be posted on public
> > > forums, where I and others can see and answer them.
>
> --
> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> [email protected]
>
> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> provide private support.  All such questions should be posted on public
> forums, where I and others can see and answer them.
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