Yes, definitely. Few of the APIs that are currently private can be made public "as is".
JBQ On 1/2/09, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
