I've been doing this locally too and it makes things easier. It's not hard to toggle your app's dependency between the released JAR and your unpacked framework library, too.
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@google.com> wrote: > The ADT has support for library projects: > > > http://developer.android.com/tools/projects/projects-eclipse.html#SettingUpLibraryProject > > We're not using this, but I've been using it locally and think it makes > things much easier when hacking on the framework (make a change and push > play instead of having to recreate jars). > > Any objections to checking this in? > > The exact change is: > > Add this line to framework/.classpath: > <classpathentry exported="true" kind="con" > > Add this line to a/framework/project.properties: > android.library=true >
