How to build my own Android SDK

Question

I work on my own android device which has many new APIs (but @hide decorated). My goal is to provide an android sdk to develop on it and use these new APIs.

So my questions is : How to build my own android sdk with these new APIs ?

If the @hide decorated is a problem, i can remove them (I don't have to respect the CDD)

Meerkat

I was under the impression that an SDK came out of a lunch build, but I am certainly no expert at that low of a level. – Destinydestitute

Thank you, but after my build i dont find any Android.jar. Donc you know where is this expected location ? {$TOP_ANDROID_BUILD}/out/? – Meerkat

Answer 1

You can use this command

make -j8 PRODUCT-sdk-sdk showcommands dist

here, you can a discussion about it : https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/android-building/Y0xduZPWtUs

Emporium

Quick note: -j8 refers to the amount of threads make will use when building, you will want it to be -jX where X is the number of logical processors you have – Caniff

Answer 2

I think the concept of SDK is being misunderstood here.

If you want to release a set of code (API) on top of the Android SDK (Utilities, math libraries, what have you?) just mark your project as a library (Project properties -> Android -> Tick "Is Library") so other Android projects can link to it easily.

Upload the project somewhere like Github and spread the link so others can use it.

Caniff

Maybe my question is not clear, but i wont a library with additionnal code. I have my own device with New APIs to access at some material functions, so i want build my Sdk (Android.jar & co) from my modified Android source code. – Meerkat

Oh, i misunderstood the question then. – Caniff