There are very few private APIs that we will just expose, though -- everything that is hidden was deliberately made that way due to issues or concerns over maintaining compatibility with it in the future.
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Jean-Baptiste Queru <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > -- 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-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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
