Well there's a difference between doing changes in the framework, and exposing new APIs.
I guess as long as you don't distribute this repository publicly and only give it to internal devs who will develop apps that are bundled with the devices (and not on any app store), then you'll be fine. FYI, we don't do this. The few apps that use internal APIs are developed directly in the Android source tree. The rest is developed against a standard SDK. On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:58 AM, todd.lee <todd....@ca.flextronics.com> wrote: > Thanks for the follow up Xavier - > Things are a little clearer now... > > So first off, to answer your question - we are currently doing > internal development where we are working against a 'tweaked' android > platform (r8). The reason for the tweaks is basically to accommodate > some unique hardware features of a device under development that don't > quite mesh with some of the stock android APIs. This is not really > 'add-on' behavior (as is seen in something like the google mapping > api) but rather a drop-in replacement to get some specific behavior. > > That being said, one of our ultimate goals if of course to achieve > full compatibility through the application of the CDD/CTS so we'll > have to look at how we can achieve that goal. If you have any > suggestions, I'm all ears ;) > > Back to the issue at hand though, so to accommodate our internal > development, am I correct in assuming that we must rebuild the SDK/AVD > manager using a custom URL that will replace the current constant in > SdkRepoContants as indicated below: > > 29 /** The URL of the official Google sdk-repository site. */\r > 30 public static final String URL_GOOGLE_SDK_SITE =\r > 31 "https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/ > repository/"; //$NON-NLS-1$\r > > And of course, publish a repository.xml that conforms to the schema > (#3) to exposes our platform/samples/docs etc? that is correct. -- Xavier Ducrohet Android SDK Tech Lead Google Inc. Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
