You can do that, and your app can break at any point an OTA happens to the
phone.  Just don't do it.

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Kenneth Loafman
<[email protected]>wrote:

>
> So, if I need something in the platform that's not in the public SDK, I
> can build against the platform instead of against the SDK?  I'm guessing
> this would be fairly risky for portability.  What other risks are there?
>
> ...Ken
>
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:17:52 -0800, "Dianne Hackborn"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Yes it's the instructions there showing how to download (with repo) and
> >build the platform.
> >
> >On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:51 PM, jack <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks Dianne for the quick reply.
> >>
> >> I am new to this... what exact does "building as part of the platform
> >> build" mean?  Is this already detailed on source.android.com?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Dec 30, 8:47 pm, "Dianne Hackborn" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > You need to build them as part of the platform build.  There are a few
> >> > exceptions, but most of the apps that are part of the open source
> >> platform
> >> > have not yet been cleaned up to use only public APIs.
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:01 PM, jack <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > I would like to compile the bundled apps (such as Camera).
> >> >
> >> > > I created a new Android project with the code from the Camera
> project
> >> > > downloaded from git.  It uses private APIs such as
> >> > > android.pim.DateFormat so it wouldn't compile.  Now, I pull in the
> >> > > whole source code for java.android.pim package but this again
> depends
> >> > > on a bunch of other packages.
> >> >
> >> > > What is the recommended way to compile such project?
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > 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.

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