OK... I figured it out. Needed to add a file to /system/etc/permissions linking mapping the library name to the jar file--then reboot.
- John On Jan 7, 1:39 pm, John Seghers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dianne, > > Thank you for your help with this. > > I'm trying to implement the shared library so that hopefully if we > ever need to use this, the Market will support that kind of filtering > by that time. Also, since we report to our servers an ID unique to > carrier/oem/handset, we want to carry this information in this shared > library so that a generic update can pick up the handset-specific > information. > > I'm having a problem getting <uses-library> to work, though (see > problem description below) > > On Dec 18 2009, 1:42 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Actually, if your app needs some functionality from the device that is not > > part of the platform, the proper way to do this is to put it in a shared > > library like this that the application uses (and the OEM implements). This > > may just be what you want to do anyway. > > Our application doesn't actually need anything specific provided by > the OEM for the app to run, but our app provides a service and content > provider that the > OEM then uses to obtain information. Since this integration is a key > element of our product, it doesn't make sense to put it on a handset > that doesn't have > the OEM-level support. > > So I've created a project with a single class > "com.cequint.platform.CequintConfig". I've run dx on the resulting > class files and packaged it in to a JAR file with a MANIFEST.MF > similar to that in other .jar files I see in /system/framework. > Indeed, I just copied the MANIFEST.MF from monkey.jar. > > So my jar file is named com.cequint.platform.jar and contains: > /META-INF/MANIFEST.MF > /classes.dex > > This jar file layout is the same for monkey.jar and > com.google.android.maps.jar. > > I then remounted /system on an OEM development phone and pushed > com.cequint.platform.jar into the /system/framework directory. > > I added <uses-library android:name="com.cequint.platform" /> to a test > application's <application> section. > > When I try to install the test application, I get an error from "adb > install": Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_MISSING_SHARED_LIBRARY] > > What am I missing here?
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