Whoops I thought this was android-platform, my bad. Anyway, yes I will move it to android-porting.
On Sep 24, 4:48 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, let's move this discussion to android-porting, this is well outside the > scope of programming with the SDK. (But no, you can't do that.) > > > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Andy Droid <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks, Dianne. I tested your suggestion with two apps, where one app > > gets resources from another app, and it worked. Doing it at the > > framework layer is more difficult, but it may be more of a build > > problem. > > > I made a change to frameworks/base/core/java/android/widget/ > > AbsListView.java did a "mmm frameworks/base", and then "make snod". > > I don't *think* I saw my change reflected, but maybe you could tell me > > if "make snod" should work, or if i need to do a full make. > > > But as another approach, I also wanted to ask this: In the file > > "list_selector_background.xml" located at frameworks/base/core/res/res/ > > drawable/, can I change the line: > > > <item android:state_focused="true" > > android:drawable="@drawable/list_selector_background_focus" /> > > > to something that points to my resource, such as: > > > <item android:state_focused="true" > > android:drawable="@drawable/ > > com.mycompany.myapp.my_list_selector_background_focus" /> > > > Is there a way to do this? thanks for your help. > > > On Sep 22, 6:47 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This happens for every application that is loaded -- the resources are a > > > combination of the framework and application resources, and all of the > > > framework can freely access the application resources. This is generally > > > accomplished by using a custom theme that references the app resources > > where > > > desired. > > > > If you mean you want to install an app and have the framework magically > > load > > > the app's resources and use something from it for all other apps, well of > > > course you have the code and can do what you want. It's certainly not > > > atypical to load one app's resources into another app -- for example this > > is > > > how home and other such things show icons or labels associated with other > > > applications. Context.createPackageContext() or the PackageManager API > > to > > > get a package's resources are the typical mechanism for this. > > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Andy Droid <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Can a core class such as "AbsListView" access resources, such as xml > > > > files, and .png's, in a 3rd party app installed in the normal way (at > > > > the app level)? > > > > > I realize this is a change in framework code, and that is fine for my > > > > purposes. So, for example, if I know that I am going to install an > > > > app called "MyApp", could I go into frameworks/base/core/java/android/ > > > > widget/AbsListView.java and tell it to use an xml file and .png's that > > > > live in that app? Here is the line I would want to modify: > > > > > setSelector(getResources().getDrawable( > > > > > com.android.internal.R.drawable.list_selector_background)); > > > > > thanks > > > > -- > > > 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, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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 Developers" 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-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
