Download android. jar Source Code using git

In order to develop android applications, it is too troublesome to find the sdk has no source code during development. The following describes how to download the source code and configure it.

Git is required to download the source code. Download a git first. The following operations are completed in windows.

After installing git, run git clone git: // android.git.kernel.org/platform/frameworks/base.git framework

Then run the cd framework

Run the git tag to display the branch. Because android has many versions

> Git tag

Android 1.0

Android 1.5

Android-1.5r2

Android-1.5r3

Android-1.5r4

Android-1.6_r1

Android-1.6_r1.1

Android-1.6_r1.2

Android-1.6_r1.3

Android-1.6_r1.4

Android-1.6_r2

Android-sdk-1.5-pre

Android-sdk-1.5_r1

Android-sdk-1.5_r3

Android-sdk-1.6-docs_r1

Android-sdk-1.6_r1

Then use

Git checkout android-1.5r4 switch to the version corresponding to the simulator (emulator)

Finally, copy the java file under framework/core/java to D: \ android-sdk-windowsplatformsandroid-1.5sources

Is the sources under the sdk directory of the corresponding platform.

Then restart eclipse to see the sdk code.