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Nauman Afzaal
Nauman Afzaal

Reputation: 1046

Best way to distribute Android Library

What is the best way to distribute android Library. I dont want the user to see my code, library has images and layout xml. Here is my understanding. Please correct if I am wrong.

So my question is that how can I distribute my library to user without giving access to my code while adding images and layout files as part of that library.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 677

Answers (3)

zaPlayer
zaPlayer

Reputation: 862

Actually you can't, even if it's a jar there is a tons of tools to reverse engineer it (one of the tools)

The only thing you can do is obfuscated your code so it turns to unreadable code. Read here about proGuard with android(proGuard)

For the distribution part with res I recommend using gradle. For example Jake Wharton has a library named butterknife. He distributed it using gradle so the user could just add 

compile 'com.jakewharton:butterknife:6.1.0'

in his gradle files and be good to go.

Another example with res files distrbuted in gradle is the android support libs which can be grabbed by adding: 

compile "com.android.support:support-v4:18.0.+"

Upvotes: 1

kukku
kukku

Reputation: 489

Use Jar U may have to get the image file and res files through a constructor if that is null use default

Upvotes: 1

eleven
eleven

Reputation: 6847

There is aar format which was exactly created for libraries distribution.

Upvotes: 2

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