On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Emre A. Yavuz <[email protected]> wrote: > We have an application which runs as an Android Service in the background. > Let's assume that we would like to have another application (an activity > rather than a service this time) which is supposed to bind to this service > (assuming that the service is already up and running when this application > is started). The binding is provided through callback functions (as if the > service provides an API for any application that wants to bind to it). > > When someone needs to compile an application of this sort, they either need > to have the source code or the JAR files of the service.
No. They just need to have the AIDL file. > We would like to > keep the source code to ourselves so I was wondering what the most > convenient way is to distribute the code for the service for anyone to > compile their applications that bind to it. Just distribute the AIDL file. > Is there any way to compile an app using > an apk of another (the service application in this case) in Eclipse ? No. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in NYC: http://marakana.com/training/android/ -- 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
