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Creating an Android app which uses a provider library

By On 19 July 2012 · 1 Comment

1. Get the library jar from your phone, using the ADB (Android Debugger Bridge). It will be in /system/framework somewhere. In my case it was the file fmreceiverif.jar.
2. Unpack the jar and get the classes.dex file.
3. Use dex2jar to convert this file to a jar file, i.e. convert the Dalvik VM […]

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Setting up Android development environment on a Linux host

By On 23 June 2011 · 4 Comments

Using a PC with FC-15 Linux…

Install eclipse.

Follow all steps on the android development web page to install the Adroid SDK and ADT plugin for eclipse.

If you ever need access to Android’s sources you will need git and a tool named ‘repo’ written by google, which works on top of git. The […]

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