Re: [android-developers] Compiling an app with JAR files or else ...

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Emre A. Yavuz <eaylist@hotmail.com> wrote:
> We have an application which runs as an Android Service in the background.
> Let's assume that we would like to have another application (an activity
> rather than a service this time) which is supposed to bind to this service
> (assuming that the service is already up and running when this application
> is started). The binding is provided through callback functions (as if the
> service provides an API for any application that wants to bind to it).
>
> When someone needs to compile an application of this sort, they either need
> to have the source code or the JAR files of the service.

No. They just need to have the AIDL file.

> We would like to
> keep the source code to ourselves so I was wondering what the most
> convenient way is to distribute the code for the service for anyone to
> compile their applications that bind to it.

Just distribute the AIDL file.

> Is there any way to compile an app using
> an apk of another (the service application in this case) in Eclipse ?

No.

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