How to attach source to android.jar

Question

I am new to Android. I am working in the Windows OS with the Eclipse IDE. My simple application has a spinner that populates a list from database column. When I click on th

Answer 1

I added appengine sdk and some other sources, and that destroyed my ADT :-(

I saw that for android-16 and android-17, the platform libraries downloaded by SDK Manager started going to ./sdk/sources whereas prior to my adding appenginge sdk, SDK Manager sent platforms to ./sdk/platforms.

It looks like the change is as a result of the appengine sdk, but for ADT, platform APIs should def be going to ./sdk/platforms

The path ./sdk/sources seems like a more generic java location and is probably the 'correct' path. Thus Android, as usual, is the problem. I was pretty sure from this point forward, I would need both ./sdk/sources and ./sdk/platforms, depending on what I was compiling.

So, I moved everything from ./sdk/sources to ./sdk/platform, deleted ./sdk/sources and then created a link 'cd sdk && ln -s platform sources'

Everything works now ;-)

Answer 2

For me the only solution which worked was the answer of fsbmain. Kudos to him. I can't comment on his solution because of my low reputation counter. But I want to share my knowledge ;)

I'm working on windows and don't wanted to copy the whole source tree to another location. And copy again on updates etc. So I used the possibility to insert a symbolic link which works since Windows Vista like a charm (or like Linux). For Linux you have to look at the Joe's comment under fsbmain's answer.

Assuming you have the platform in D:\sdk\platforms\android-19. Now you have to make a subdirectory sources and after that create a relative link to the real sources folder.

D:\sdk\platforms\android-19>mkdir sources
D:\sdk\platforms\android-19>cd sources
D:\sdk\platforms\android-19\sources>mklink /D android-19 ..\..\..\sources\android-19

Now restart Eclipse ... Done!

Answer 3

Unless you need older API sources, you are probably better served by Timmmm's answer. If you do need sources older than 14, read on...

In Eclipse simply go to

Help -> Install New Software

then add update site

http://adt-addons.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/source/com.android.ide.eclipse.source.update/

and go through the motions to install it.

This will happily provide sources for all installed API versions and works very well for me. Some more documentation is here

http://code.google.com/p/adt-addons/

look for the heading Android Sources

Answer 4

This is now really easy!

Go to Window->Android SDK Manager and install "Sources for Android SDK".

Now try to control-click some Android identify, you will get the usual "no source attached" page. Click "Attach Source" and get the option to select an external folder.

Now browse to /home/me/android-sdks/sources/android-16 (or wherever your SDK is installed; this is the default), and hit ok.

It should think for a moment and then display the source! Yeay!

Answer 5

To attach source code for android.jar, you may follow the tutorial at the link below: http://android.opensourceror.org/2010/01/18/android-source/ Make sure to choose the correct platform version.

If you meet difficutly with spinner, try to get the sample code and see how it works: http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/get.html

Good luck. :)

Update

This answer is quite out of date, please consider other answers.

Answer 6

If adding folder android-sdks/sources/android-17 as external source doesn't work (as in my case) you can try to create folder android-sdks/platforms/android-17/sources/android-17 copy sources to it and restart eclipse (I have eclipse Juno Service Release 1). Only this way works for me.

Steps to do this for android-17:

1. Go to the adroid-sdk install folder, for me it's d:\ws\android-sdks\
2. Copy android-17 sources folder from android-sdks\sources\android-17\ to the android-sdks\platforms\android-17\sources\ (your have to create folder sources here manually) folder so the final path to the sources must be the: android-sdks\platforms\android-17\sources\android-17\
3. restart the eclipse, it must automatically attach sources for android-17

UPD: the same solution with symlinks:

Windows Vista+ (thanks @saleemrashid1 for mentioning mklink in comments):

1. cd platforms\android-17
2. mklink /D "sources\android-17" "..\..\..\sources\android-17"

For Unix-base OSes (@Joe comment):

it works fine to create the directory and symlink "sources/android-XX" to "../../../sources/android-XX":

mkdir platforms/android-19/sources && 
ln -s ../../../sources/android-19 platforms/android-19/sources/android-19.