You're right of course, that this is less than optimal for some people. Most people actually even though windows users are a majority (I'm well aware of you all :)), downloading 2-3 GB of source is not easy.
There are reasons though for not doing it. - You should be able to rely on the API descriptions and not focus on a particular implementation - the implementation could to change version to version - the implementation could change on some devices (while keeping the API contract valid) Note also that Eclipse is unable to deal with compiling for android 1.5 but running on android 2.3 where the source code is really different. Eclipse can only handle one source location of a jar file, but android.jar is a runtime jar not an included jar, and if you ran your 1.5 application on 2.3 you would want to see the source of 2.3 Xav On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Bob Kerns <[email protected]> wrote: > You know, those of us who normally develop with Windows would > certainly appreciate a nice .zip file of at least the .java sources. > > It doesn't have to be buildable, or even complete to every last > obscure file. Just something similar to how Sun/Oracle provide > src.zip. > > Yes, I can fire up a virtual machine or Amazon EC2 instance, and make > my own. In fact, I'm loading the sources into an Amazon EC2 instance > right now, but it's a lot more time consuming than it needs to be -- > and there are a lot of us Windows-using developers out here, believe > it or not! > > On Dec 6, 8:48 pm, Xavier Ducrohet <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://source.android.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] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Xavier Ducrohet Android SDK Tech Lead Google Inc. Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! -- 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
