Thanks for this very clear message. I've been meaning to look into the library stuff. You might just have tempted me.
Danny On Dec 23, 10:35 am, Xavier Ducrohet <[email protected]> wrote: > The message you get running apkbuilder is a bit misleading I agree. > > I've been very tempted to simply remove the tool but I'm sure that > would annoy more people. > > The issues is that apkbuilder (the script) is just not maintained at > all because neither Ant, nor Eclipse use it. > > With the introduction of library project, this final step in build > android applications has become more complex and requires more > parameters to be passed to com.android.sdklib.build.ApkBuilder. Since > the default build system doesn't use the apkbuilder script, we haven't > added all those new parameters to apkbuilder. > > At this time we simply don't have the resources to support people who > want to use their own build system, but we really wish we could. In > many ways we try to make it easy on other tools vendor by clearly > separating logic to eclipse or ant specific code (hence the multitude > of jar files everywhere in the tools and in ADT), but this is not one > of them. > > The biggest issue would be to extract the logic to deal with library > projects and package that with sdklib somehow (there's a lot in ADT > and in the Ant custom tasks right now) so that we could build a new > ApkbuilderMain that can handle libraries somewhat automatically. > > Unless someone is willing to contribute this, it's unlikely to happen > for a while (if ever) though. > > Xav > > -- > 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
