Build just apk from AOSP

Trystan

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Oct 25, 2011, 7:23:19 PM10/25/11

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Hi,

Is it possible to build just a application and generate the apk file
without have to build the complete source ?

I mean, I want to do a very small change in Email.apk but do not want
to build the complete source code to only get that....

Is it possible somehow to do that? And how to do ?

Thanks,
-Thiago

Ying Wang

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Oct 25, 2011, 8:38:35 PM10/25/11

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$ make -j showcommands Email

It will build Email and anything it depends on.
In the android build system, you can always make individual modules by "make <module_names>".

The module names mean "LOCAL_MODULE" or "LOCAL_PACKAGE_NAME" in the Android.mks.

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mizmit1222

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Oct 25, 2011, 9:49:15 PM10/25/11

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Hi,

$ cd your/android/repo
$ source build/envsetup.sh
$ cd your/project
$ mm

log message shows you where the apk goes.
Both apk and odex may need to be installed.

Trystan

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Oct 26, 2011, 4:26:18 PM10/26/11

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Thank you guys !

Will try that today !

iguinea

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Nov 2, 2011, 5:37:07 PM11/2/11

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Hi guys, i have another question about this.
when you finish compiling this app or another modules, how do you
rebuild system image without the need of rebuilding the complete
source code?

thanks in advance

Jean-Baptiste Queru

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Nov 4, 2011, 12:44:47 PM11/4/11

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There's no mechanism for that out of the box. You'd need to have
prebuilt versions of all the files that go on the system image, and
(at least at Google) we don't have those and we build things from
source.

It's possible in theory, though, if you know exactly every files that
gets installed and handle each of those as a prebuilt.

JBQ

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Trystan

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Dec 20, 2011, 6:17:21 AM12/20/11

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Hi,
Is this still valide for build Email.apk for ICS (4.0.3) ?
I tried it and it seems to be building the complete system... Is it
normal (is it the dependencies ?) ?
I tried the 'mm' command, but it fails, I guess because the other
dependencies ?
Thanks !

Jean-Baptiste Queru

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Dec 20, 2011, 11:03:57 AM12/20/11

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It's not building the complete system, just what's necessary to build
the Email app (which includes building the entire framework).