Re: [android-developers] Re: Shared library

Making it a shared library is not going to keep your app small, it will just move the code around.  In fact, the result will be larger, as Dalvik can't do as much combining of symbols and such as it does when code is statically linked together.

The only thing a shared library helps for size is that if there is another app it can also use the same shared library so there isn't another copy...  but then the price for that is you now need to deal with library versioning and "DLL hell" and all that fun stuff.

Currently Android does not support third party shared libraries.

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:24 AM, { Devdroid } <webnet.android@gmail.com> wrote:

On 29 July 2010 16:46, James Wang <jameswangcnln@gmail.com> wrote:
> Platform library is a choice but I do not think it can be distributed
> by Market.

Thanks, that's what I thought. Distribution is not a problem but I expect user
won't be able to install such (unless rooted).

Damn, all my attempts to keep the app as small as possible gets nuked :(
Too bad as it looks I have no choice but to make bloatware... Blah

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