how to overlay android source code

[James Wang]

We know we can use PRODUCT_PACKAGE_OVERLAYS to make OEM's resource
replace Android original resource files. But it is only for resource
file. Is there any similar way to overlay source code for OEM?
What's DEVICE_PACKAGE_OVERLAYS for? No comment on pdk about it.

James

[Lox]

I would like to know too...

[Robert Greenwalt]

The two overlays are really doing the same thing but at different priorities.  The product overlays take priority over device overlays.

There is no method for replacing code.

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[Bjarke Freund-Hansen]

Hi

This is a quite old question, so I was wondering if it is still the case. Is there still no way to do source overlays?

Thanks

/Bjarke

[Robert Greenwalt]

I believe so.  I've heard of people making it work hacking up the build system, but I don't think it's officially supported - that sort of code fragmentation would be a nightmare to support.

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[freakingtux]

Hi,

On Tuesday, September 6, 2011 6:15:29 PM UTC+2, Robert Greenwalt wrote:

I believe so.  I've heard of people making it work hacking up the build system, but I don't think it's officially supported - that sort of code fragmentation would be a nightmare to support.

A better approach might be to maintain your own git branches with changes (and keep them up to date)

Greetings