I'll add that we'll gladly accept high-quality patches that refactor the offending apps to only use SDK APIs (in which case android-platform is probably the best list), and that in legitimate situations we'll consider exposing the necessary APIs through the SDK (in which case this is the appropriate list).
JBQ On 1/1/09, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Android Engineer, Google. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android-framework" 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-framework?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
