Sorry true shared libraries are not supported right now, largely due to the
lack of support for linking to resources outside of the framework.  I don't
have an ETA on when this feature will be in the platform, though it's
clearly something we want.

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Nick <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> If I understand the current framework correctly, it is possible to
> share resources to be used in new Java libraries (not those included
> in the open source project) by placing them in with the other Android
> framework resources.
>
> However, I've only found one way to share these resources across
> packages.  I can modify the public.xml file in frameworks/base/core/
> res/res/values/ and expose the resources that the applications need.
> This is not ideal since my resources are now part of android.R.*,
> which potentially has backward compatibility problems if the open
> source project exposes new resources that overlap my previously
> defined resources.
>
> Is there another way to make these resources available to packages
> without making them part of android.R?
>
> NOTE - All the packages that will need these resources will be part of
> the system image so I don't need to expose them to external packages.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick
> >
>


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