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pankaj
pankaj

Reputation: 8348

creating a new android application from an existing android application

I am a novice in android development but have good experience in iPhone development. I have a source code of an android application and I want to make another android application by copying same code and making changes in images and api. I also want to introduce it in android store with different package name. Can someone please tell me the steps which I need to follow to do it. I feel I will have to create a new project with a new package name but how will I import all of the resources of the existing application?

Regards
Pankaj

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2567

Answers (3)

Kuldeep Singh
Kuldeep Singh

Reputation: 336

OK Follow these steps:

1). Create New Android Project (Name: MyProject) and define package name (Like pack.test.myproject).

2). Now delete only .java files (not package) in src folder new project.

3). delete the res folder from new project.

4). delete the android.manifest file of new project.

5). Now drag and drop all the .java files on the package name that u want to put in new Project.

6). drag and drop the res folder and manifest file of old project.

7). Now change the images in res drawable folder and add the api by right click on the project -> go to properties -> go to build path and then click on add button.

and run your app.

Upvotes: 1

Sameer
Sameer

Reputation: 4389

Instead of creating a new project and copying everything, it would be easier to change the package name in existing project (You can make a copy, if you want to preserve the existing project) You would have to mainly change package names after that.

  1. You must change the package name in AndroidManifest.xml as that will be used by the market. Also reset the version to 1 and versioCode to 1.0
  2. Move all the code to a different package. You can do it using Eclipse IDE refactor feature. Right click on the base package in the package explorer and choose Refactor | Rename. In the dialog, enter new base package name and check "Rename subpackages"

Upvotes: 1

Redsandro
Redsandro

Reputation: 11356

Copy the source tree, (...)/myOldApp -> (...)/myNewApp

Working on the copy, you should remove the hidden project settings files (e.g. .project in Eclipse) and just rename the resources, e.g. (...)/myNewApp/com/pankaj/oldapp to (...)/myNewApp/com/pankaj/newapp

Now rename all occurances of oldapp to newapp by batch in your favorite editor.

NOW create a new project and choose to use an existing location as your workspace. Point it to your copied location e.g. (...)/myNewApp.

Upvotes: 0

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