That sounds exactly like what I need. When will the Froyo aapt be available?
On Jun 15, 11:11 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > The Froyo aapt will have a mechanism to build an existing package under a > new name without modifying any of its source, manifest, or resources. > > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Jeff Thorn <[email protected]> wrote: > > I looked into Library Projects, but I am not sure if that helps me. I > > assume I would put the Activity in the library, since it is what is used by > > each "app". However, that Activity relies on String values from > > res/values/strings. Each "app" will have different strings. Therefore the > > activity calls R.string.something to get the string from the resource. > > > In order to make each app its own unique app, I need to change the > > "package" attribute of <manifest> element in the AndroidManifest.xml. This > > has the unfortunate side effect of generating the R class with the app's > > custom package name. Therefore, when the Activity common code base tries to > > look up a string using the R class, it cannot find the class since it has a > > different package name. > > > At this point I am thinking about creating an Ant target to replace the > > package name in R.java. However, I feel like there has to be a better way. > > > Am I overlooking something? Can this be accomplished with libraries? > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Mark Murphy > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Any other suggestions? > > >> Try the new "library project" featured added in the latest edition of > >> the dev tools: > > >>http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/eclipse-adt.html#librar... > > >>http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/other-ide.html#libraryP... > > >> -- > >> Mark Murphy > >> CommonsWare > >> [email protected] > >>http://commonsware.com > > >> -- > >> 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > >> For more options, visit this group at > >>http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > -- > > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > 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
