html unit with android - android

I have a working code with html unit and java(repeat, working code :P) no errors no missing jars.
now I copy paste this same code into an android project, add the html unit library etc... try to run it and I get
could not find class "com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.webclient"
and a series of subsequent errors that follow
I tried adding jar files to /libs folder as some suggested(through google) and that cost eclipse to go out of memory before opening the emulator
I also ticking the libraries under order and export (that did not do much)
anyway so the question is, is it possible to get html unit to run with android? and if not, what is the alternative to it in android? my software needs to loginto a server, fill several forms, etc...
thank you

Try creating project from existing source ... I have this problem often when I try foreign code.

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It can generate csv files from your strings.xml, and you can do translate according the csv file.
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It more readable for now IT man to help me do translate this way.
You can give it a try.
If you have any further question, you can leave issue to me.
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If I create an AIR app from the Flash IDE, I can choose to embed folder in my package. Then I can load the files using 'app:/'+filename. Everything is ok.
I have to move to Flash Builder because I can't test workers in the IDE (thanks Adobe). My issue is that, if I test/debug from Flash Builder, it does a stream error when calling 'app:/'+filename. If I launch the test in the IDE from FB, it works but the Workers don't. I should mention, the reason I'm using this method is that I have so many graphical assets, it's just easier to maintain/update this way instead of using [Embed.. ] for all my items, and it just works in the IDE...
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According to Wikipedia APK files are based on the Jar file format which in turn is a Zip file:
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Im thinking about trying to build a complex android app structure for a game maybe or just for practice reasons. Im used to code in objective-c, so im not that much experienced in android...
Anyway in work, we structure our app on ios like this:
-core framework: handling all core items, navigation, datahandling, mechanisms, etc. its the same in all of our project
-project framework: its files are mostly relying (including) the core framework's files, extending/modifying them, and doing the project depending stuff
-skin framework: this contains all the resources and images, if we want to do a re-skinned project, we only have to alter this
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So I wanted to do a similar structure on android, but I'm not sure that I'm even able to do it... I see that there is android project and library project, I can include them into eachother... but my questions are:
1: can I build a similar structure as on ios?
2: can I make for example a "core" library what contains the basics of mechanisms, and another library containing only the resources, and a third one (or the third could be the actual runnable project), what can get resources from the resource library, can distribute jobs to the core library, etc...
3: can I organize the resources as I like (so not to throw every picture into the drawable folder root for example). For example to have somehow a characters folder (i know i cant do forlders in the res folder), and map files into map folder, etc... My only chance to name them "properly"? (map_sheet_type_1, map_sheet_type_2, character_sheet_type_1, etc) (if its going to be a game, it would use opengl, lots of sprite drawing, etc)
or I should do everything in a single project, dividing everything into a lot of packages, and use libraries only for jobs like "how to transcode "A" object into "B" object" ?
Thanks for the answers in advance
although I've never developed a game before, but an app is an app:
yes
as you mention you have executable projects and libraries projects, libraries can use other libraries and the only thing that goes to the device is whatever the executable project is building. It's just important to remark that compiled libraries *.jar files resources cannot be used in your executable project (that's why the ActionBar Sherlock have to be used as a library-project). In order to use a resource placed in a library project the project must be with its full source code open in the Eclipse so it can be compiled together. That is because inside an app, there's only one R (resources) object, and during build all the resources from all the projects are put together.
unfortunately no. As you mentioned yourself the resources cannot be in subfolders and even their file names are restricted as they can only use lower case letters, numbers and _ (underline). Just be clever and organised, write a spec or something.
packages IS the way to organize a single project in Java. If you gonna use multiple or single is your choice. Usually you can encapsulate in a library-project stuff that can easily be re-used in different projects, and the final project will contain everything that is specific to that one app/game. I'll give you an example on the place I work, we have a KicthenLibrary that is a library-project that we use in every single Android app we do. That library already contains an excellent multi-threaded bitmap download and cache classes, we used to have a MapFragment (now deprecated) before Google released their MapFragment, easy Http GET/POST methods, etc. As you can see, all of those are stuff that can easily be re-used in several different projects.
And just as a last trick, http://www.eclipse.org/egit/ IMHO is much easier to use GIT directly from inside Eclipse.
Here are a couple links that should help you get started on this.
http://kasperholtze.com/android/how-to-best-organize-your-android-source/
http://bartinger.at/organization-tips-for-android-projects/
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