25 January 2010

Attaching Android platform source to Eclipse

One of the major drawbacks of Android development is in the missing sources of the framework. At least in my opinion. Attaching the sources seemed like a logical step to me. Easy enough I found Google's step-by-step instructions on how to download the source files from the repo (http://source.android.com/download). This took a huge amount of time and produced some 8 GBs of data on disk. Pretty huge for just some source, huh?
So I kept on searching. Luckily, I found this post, providing zipped pure sources for SDK 1.5, 1.6, and 2.1. Zip files are just around 22 MB. You just create a folder named 'sources' for the related platform and extract the files/folders from the zip into that folder. Once you refresh your projects in Eclipse your sources are there. Awesome! 

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