I am new to android...and i am trying to build an application that doesn't have AndroidManifest.xml but does contains files like .sh,.bat,.exe,etc. Along with folders ant-lib and lib containing .jar files...
Please help me as to how should i build such an android project from scratch
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Obvious question: Why do you want to create an app without an AndroidManifest.xml? It's like creating a Java application without a main-method.
Maybe it helps if you give more details on what you're trying to do. For example, why do you want to include .bat and .exe files in your application? Remember that Android is based on a Linux plattform so I'm not really sure what you're trying to do here..
If you're new to Android do the following:
Read the application fundamentals: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html
Create a Hello World app: http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/hello-world.html
Browse the API Demos application and learn from the code: http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/index.html
Having an Android app without a manifest.xml file is totally nonsense. This is how Android works. It needs the manifest to be able to understand what kind of permission your app has, what kind of Activities (UI) it provides etc... You basically cannot have an application without an manifest file.
What you want is a library not an application. As all application in android must have manifest.xml but libraries dont. The DataExtractionOSM in that project is a library just like any java library.
Check out the following Create library for Android development?
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I have a simple calculator app. It's a complete application all by itself.
I also have a more advanced calculator app that's based on the first app, but has more features. Its main Activity extends the first app's main Activity. The advanced app references quite a lot of resources and methods from the simpler app.
Getting the advanced app to build under Android Studio has been a nightmare. I've been googling and trying things blindly in the build.gradle files, but not making much progress. At first, the problem was dependent features configured but no package id was set (whatever that means, Google turned up no documentation.)
I got past that by tweaking the build.gradle files, and now I'm getting Manifest merger failed with multiple errors, see logs, but I can't find the relevant logs. It looks like the build failed because Android Studio tried to merge the AndroidManifest.xml files from the simple app and the advanced app, but I just wanted to use the manifest from the advanced app.
This is all very frustrating because I made it all work under Eclipse but now I have to move to Android Studio.
I guess my first question is: How can I tell Android Studio to just use the Android Manifest from the current project and not try to merge from the other project.
In general: can an application project serve as a library for another project, and if so how? Are there any examples?
Third question: where can I find good documentation on build.gradle?
I could attach my current build.gradle files and AndroidManifest.xml files if people need to see them, but I'm really hoping to learn enough that I can help myself.
Confirm the problem first：
Switch the same model in Library / application
Application ID androidmanifest conflict problem
if this is the problem, the official documents can see the channel packaging
https://developer.android.google.cn/studio/build
And I wrote you a little demo
https://github.com/yuanweiwork/lytools
I hope it can help you
We have a custom ROM for a device we are making and what I want to do is make our own custom Settings app to replace the settings app that comes already built in android.
I cant really find any documentation on how to even create a system app. It does not appear you can create it in Android Studio, I tried looking on the AOSP site and didnt find anything there related to creating system apps. The few things I did find were on here where you would put android:sharedUserId="android.uid.system" in your manifest and then has to be signed with the same key as the ROM but after that I cant find anything.
The settings app I want to create would need access to the framework.jar to be able to use the hidden framework API's.
Does anyone have any information or know where I can find this information on how to go about actually creating a system app?
You may want to research how to make a Device Tree Overlay (dto). Basically it is your code, reformatting the base code, into what you want. https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/dto?hl=en
Since you said you use Gradle, you should put first build you apk and put them in you vender folder, and next important thing is to create a mk/bp file to tell the Android build system how to deal with this pre-built apk.
P.S. If you system app highly depends on Android hidden api, make sure you have the right version of framework.jar in you Android Studio project, or, as what I alway did, create apps directly in AOSP, in this case, you can just check the code structure of the original Settings app in AOSP
this tutorial may help you.
I've been pulling my hair out all day. I'm converting my WPF app to Xamarin.Forms (UWP, IOS and Android). I'm currently focused on UWP and Android (don't have an apple devices yet) and I got a lot of the program running but I ran into a huge snag with reading files that are not in my sandbox directory. Currently, my app allows you to choose a folder with images and you can move through them. To test out the reading functionality, I've placed the images into the "LocalState" directory and bingo, my code is working beautifully. Now the program doesn't have a default folder and when I originally created it in WPF, the user would have a pop up and they would choose their own folder but I cannot for the life of me get a similar function for Xamarin. Every time I try something, I get an "access denied". I've seen Android apps allow you to pick a folder for emulators and I'm 100% sure that you can setup UWP to do permissions with StorageApplicationPermissions but I just cannot get this to work for Xamarin.Forms. Please help me!
OK, Android first it is easier. You need to setup in the manifest permissions to read and write SD-card. On Marshmallow and later you need to ask for the permission at the runtime (you need to do that from the native project).
On UWP the easiest thing to do would be to set the broadfileaccess in the manifest. Other than that you pointed out to the proper APIs, just you need to run them natively.
In general native code is called by using dependency injection. If it gets too complicated you may consider to create Xamarin.Forms project as a shared project where you can use conditional compiling instead of dependency injection which is quite simpler.
I am having a requirement like to add a custom setting to android native settings(like when we go to Home->settings->Display we have Screen timeout,Animation,Auto-rotate screen,Brightness settings available.But i want to add one more setting like auto-screentimeout there.i,e i need to change the source code of android..some thing related to forked android consept)so,Is this possible..?if so can we use NDK for this...
Thanks in advance...
You can download the Android source code and then create your own settings APK. However it will probably only run on the phone you are testing it, and I assume you run into problems when using different Android versions or some modifications by device manufacturers.
Read more http://source.android.com/ on how to get started.
Alternatively you could extract the settings APK from your current phone, decompile it with apktools, and then re-create it again with your changes.
Read more on http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/
In both ways you need to have root access to install the new APK... and probably a custom recovery to restore from a nandroid backup when your modification crashes!
The Android NDK is for writing application code in C or C++.
What you want is to build your own version of the Android firmware; it is a completely separate issue. Have a look at this for starters.
i have used eclipse, android sdk and phonegap to create a small application. I give it a test and create a test.apk package.
What i ma wondering is where can i set up some details about this app, like who made it, the app name, the version, an icon maybe, any other things i might need to setup.
I have a AndroidManifest.xml file and when i open it i get a nice gui but i don't know what to modify there
Im not sure what i need to set up and even if i need to.
A good tutorial is much appreciated. Thanks
You can set most of those things in the manifest file. If you want to include this information in your code, add license headers in all your classes, use java-doc etc.
If you want this information to be accessible in your app like from 'About' button, you have to handle it yourself.
Take a look at this example.
This details are to be filled when you upload it to android market. I dont think you set them in AndroidManifest.xml ! you can see the xml code , by clicking on the "source code" tab just below the UI .
Here's a tutorial that describes managing AndroidManifest.xml, the app name and icons from our AppLaud Eclipse plugin for PhoneGap Android.