Thanks for your reply, that's a shame. Hopefully this will be a thing of the future as it would be extremely handy.
On Apr 3, 5:46 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh also, there is at least a basic example of writing a plugin: > > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/IM.git;a=tree... > > But note that it does need to have the same uid as the IM host: > > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/IM.git;a=blob... > > Also the certificate being used is the "generic application" certificate in > the platform build, which is provided by the device manufacturer for their > device, so will vary across different manufacturers. So even if you could > have your app signed with the correct certificate for the device you have, > it wouldn't work on any other manufacturer's device (or perhaps even other > devices from the same manufacturer). > > What it all boils down to is that this wasn't designed correctly to support > third party applications. > > Plus the APIs for this are not in the SDK, and most likely need a lot of > work (besides just actually not requiring things run in the same process) to > be something that is actually maintainable. > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Actually, I don't think it is extensible. I mean, in theory it is, it has > > plugins, but the design is such that the plugins need to all run in the same > > process, meaning they need to be signed with the same certificate as the > > host and use the same uid as the host. > > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Disconnect <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> The good news is, it absolutely is extendable. (I -believe- you can even > >> write one as a standard app to install.) The bad news is, the only people > >> who have examples or implementations are google - all the IM providers so > >> far are closed source. There was talk that this was medium/high priority > >> fix > >> (a simple stub-out example) but that was almost 6 months ago, so.. > > >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Sean Bannister > >> <[email protected]>wrote: > > >>> I'm just looking at the Android's native IM app and wondering if it's > >>> possible to create new providers? I know other people have written > >>> seperate IM clients but it'd be great to add to list in the native IM > >>> app. > > >>> The 3 I'd like to work on is Facebook, MySpaceIM, Skype. > > > -- > > Dianne Hackborn > > Android framework engineer > > [email protected] > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > > provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public > > forums, where I and others can see and answer them. > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public > forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
