Thanks Mark ...
 
Emre
 

> From: [email protected]
> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:21:23 -0400
> Subject: Re: [android-developers] Compiling an app with JAR files or else ...
> To: [email protected]
> 
> 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.
> 
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