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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
