I use eclipse to build apptrial, and then use 'make' to build appcore (You could use 'ant' as well). When using make, it's more flexible and I can force the R class to be generated in the appcore package.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Jay-andro <jayan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Mattaku (or anyone else who can help) > > I am trying a similar approach. All my code (trial and full) is in a > single codebase. A set of preferences (set differently in the two > versions) determine whether the app behaves as a trial or as a full > app. In order to create two apk's out of this, I put all the code into > com.appcore.* packages. I then create com.appfull and com.apptrial > packages and place the respective android manifest files there. I make > the necessary changes to the manifest to make all the relative package > names in the manifest absolute. Now when I build say appfull in > eclipse, the issue I have is that R.java gets generated into > com.appfull, and all the classes in com.appcore.* are unable to refer > to R.layout objects because R is no longer in the same package > structure as themselves. I tried physically moving the generated > R.java into com.appcore but didnt have any success with that, plus > thats not an elegant solution anyway. > > The other issue is how do I get com.appfull to invoke/refer-to > com.appcore so that when I build, it will include both com.appfull and > com.appcore in the apk. > > If you can share a more complete how-to on the appcore/appfull/applite > scheme you are using (or post the code somewhere), that would be very > helpful. > > Thanks > Jay > > On Feb 18, 8:57 pm, Mattaku Betsujin <mattaku.betsu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I have two APK files. One in com.foo.appfull package, the other in > > com.foo.applite package. > > > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:36 PM, jarkman <jark...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Thanks - so did you define your activities in com.foo.appcore, or do > > > they have to be in the com.foo.applite/appfull packages ? > > > > > On Feb 18, 9:36 pm, Mattaku Betsujin <mattaku.betsu...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > What I did was: > > > > > > Put most of the functionality in a single package, say: > com.foo.appcore > > > > > > Then, each version of the app will be in a different package > > > > > > com.foo.applite > > > > com.foo.appfull > > > > > > In development, I put the full version in Eclipse (i.e., appcore and > > > > appfull), so it's easy to build and debug all the source code. > > > > > > To build applite, I use a Makefile -- I tried ant, but it's just not > as > > > > flexible as make. > > > > > > I got all that to work, and then I decided to make my program > open-source > > > so > > > > all that was a waste of time :-) > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:50 AM, jarkman <jark...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > We're thinking about building light and paid versions of our app > for > > > > > the Market. But I am not clear what we need to do, or how to do it. > > > > > > > (1) Do we definitely need the two versions to have different > package > > > > > names for the two builds ? > > > > > > > It seems logical to do it that way, but I have not found a clear > > > > > answer from Google to that question. Though I have found several > > > > > people asking the same question. > > > > > > > (2) Is there any support in Eclipse for building two similar apps > with > > > > > different package names from the same java and xml files ? > > > > > > > In most of the IDEs I've used, it is a doddle to define multiple > build > > > > > targets for one project, but none of those mechanisms seem to be > > > > > present here. And, the package name is embedded in every java file, > as > > > > > well as in many places in the manifest, leaving me without a tidy > way > > > > > to build to alternate package names. > > > > > > > Is there a tidy way to build multiple version ? Or are we really > going > > > > > to end up copying the whole codebase and search-and-replacing the > > > > > package name ? > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > Richard > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
