Agreed Kris.. but with the absence of URLClassLoader, I was just curious if
you could download a class and load it with this approach. I would not want
to load code like this either on a phone given the multitude ways it could
crash the phone.. and make your app look bad.



On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Kristopher Micinski <krismicin...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> You really don't want to do this, it won't work (because Dalvik is not
> something that takes a jar) and is horrible security practice.
>
> In general, you should always be very skeptical when you run code you
> got from somewhere else: big security problems pop up.
>
> Kris
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Kevin Duffey <andjar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > couldn't you download a jar or class file other ways then use this to
> load
> > it?
> >
> > On Jan 8, 2013 9:19 AM, "Mark Murphy" <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> You mean, besides the fact that URLClassLoader doesn't work with
> >> Dalvik files (AFAIK) and that loading a library directly from the
> >> network is totally insecure?
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Jan Burse <janbu...@fastmail.fm>
> wrote:
> >> > Dear All,
> >> >
> >> > I am just read:
> >> >
> >> >    Provides a simple ClassLoader implementation that operates
> >> >    on a list of files and directories in the local file system,
> >> >    but does not attempt to load classes from the network. Android
> >> >    uses this class for its system class loader and for its
> >> >    application class loader(s).
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> http://developer.android.com/reference/dalvik/system/PathClassLoader.html
> >> >
> >> > Does this mean I cannot use the URLClassLoader on Android with
> >> > URLs that have for example the schema http:// ?
> >> >
> >> > Bye
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