eclipse - merge two android projects

Question

i want to merge two different android projects to use the functionalty of both in one project. They are using complete different packages for the files.

I copied the files with the different packages in one project, but there is a problem with the manifest file.

Is it possibly to have different packages in the android manifest file? Or how can i solve this? Maybe specify the activities with the whole package and not use ".shortcut" ?

I hope there is someone to help me.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Building a library can solve this problem. This is the way I have proceeded on my side for a similar question:

• I had a project ProjectA that was finished and working

• I had a new project ProjectB that had to reuse some functions of ProjectA.

• These functions were likely to be reused again so I built a library Library1 and I moved the necessary code from ProjectA to it. I set the Library1's isLibrary flag to true under Eclipse (that's in the project properties - let me know whether you would like more details on this and I'll edit that post if needed).

• Then I modified the ProjectA's properties to use Library1. This also implied some refactoring on ProjectA side but that was OK.

• And finally, I created my ProjectB as a client of Library1 as well. And this was straightforward.