Collect Android
This is a collection of Groovy-scripts that will build a replacement android.jar for use in your IDE.
This one will containing all the scary non-public APIs that only Real Engineers like those who work at Google can handle.
It will recursively search the directories you specified, compile the Java files, create the AIDL interfaces, and use AAPT to generate the correct resources (R classes).
The result is a new android.jar and a zip file containing all the source files.
NOTE: I have not personally used these scripts since 2.3/Gingerbread, so they will for sure need tweaking for any modern version of Android.
Usage
Of course first make sure you use repo to get the android source. Use the -b flag to get the correct version (froyo, gingerbread, etc).
First edit the configuration in CollectConfig.groovy. I left my personal config in there as an example, and because I am too lazy to remove it. Of particular importance is the rootdirs value. This will determine which packages (containing all those hidden APIs you want to use) will be included.
Then run CollectAndroid.groovy. Make sure you have ant-launcher.jar and ant.jar on the classpath. Sometimes Groovy does this for you already, but it doesn’t always work (eg running directly from my IDE it fails for me).
When the script runs it can sometimes finds duplicate classes, because the same class file is present twice in different directories. Sometime one of the files is missing a bunch of methods because it’s some kind of stub, and if not careful that could be the file you end up with. There will be warnings in the output listing the files included twice or more. So be wary of these!
All groovy script can also be used individually. Keep in mind that including more directories in the new jar might make your IDE slower.
You can’t explain that
CollectPaths searches for the roots of Java and Android files, and saves the paths.
CollectCopyContent gathers all the files in one place
CollectAAPT generates the resource files, it also recognizes the “res/core” package for creating public resources.
CollectAIDLup generates the interfaces for AIDL services
CollectCompile compiles all the classes with the ECJ (eclipse) compiler, ignoring all errors.
CollectPackage creates the jar and sources zip file.
Usage with Eclipse
Replace the android.jar file in the Android SDK for the platform you build for. Extract the sources to a sources directory as a subdirectory of the dir where android.jar is (the ADT eclipse plugin is hard-coded to look at this location). Finally, either globally or just for your project change the compilation settings (under Java Compiler → Error / Warnings). Under “deprecated or restricted” change “forbidden reference” to warning or ignore.
How well does it work?
I only tested this on 2 different OSX machines. The code is “fragile” at best, and rather hacked together (using rather dubious parsing here and there).
If you try this on your machine and it actually works or horribly fails, comments are welcome of course.
License
The MIT License
Copyright © 2010 Tijl Houtbeckers
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