How do I build the Android SDK with hidden and internal APIs available?

Question

I want to rebuild the Android SDK (or rather only the android.jar) to include hidden and internal APIs.

I could not find any documentation or discussion doing on how to go about this. I have an Ubuntu CyanogenMod build environment already setup that is able to build cm7.

Now, I read that make SDK will build the SDK but I want to build an SDK that includes methods and fields that are marked as hidden using @hide. Is this possible?

What I want to do is make changes to an application that uses hidden API and in order to rebuild it I would like to use the modified SDK.

Answer 1

This is what I always do to use hidden api.

1. Build the repo or download jars from https://sites.google.com/site/hippunosource/home/android/androidnohide-apiwo-shi-yongsuru-rifurekushonha-wei-shi-yong
2. copy out out/target/common/obj/JAVA_LIBRARIES/framework_intermediates/classes.jar (better to rename it as something like framework_all.jar)
3. config your project build path-->libraries --> add this external jars. In Order and Export, move it up and before android.jar