in titanium, is it possible to access the 3rd-party-jar-bundled resource files( xml ) from an android module?

Question

I have been working on how to access the 3rd-party-jar-bundled resource files ( xml files, images , referred here ) from an android module. Is it possible to do this?

Because these resource files are called by the compiled-3rd-party jar files, which means, I am not able to use TiRHelper.getApplicationResource method in the native java code unless I:

1. de-compile the jar files to java code.
2. replace all the native resource reference to TiRHelper.getApplicationResource
3. re-compile the 3rd-party java source code to jar file.

(This third party project is https://github.com/ShareSDKPlatform/ShareSDK-for-Android/tree/master/Sample, I can easily compile & run it. You can see there are resource files in /res folder, and one of the jar files used these resource files. )

I searched a whole day but found no answer.

I got some clues from the official document , tried but not success. the error show that the resource is not accessbile by the java code from titanium module.

also, this same question( http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/178857/unable-to-load-resources-from-3rd-party-librarys-resourced-in-android-module ) is not answered.

this answer( http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/49671/android-r-references-in-appcelerator-module#answer-266726 ) gives me a clue that the methods:

getResource() gives an Error
getAndroidResource() gives an Error
but getApplicationResource() DOES work

and there is a clue that the 'apklib' may be useful, but after read some posts, I found it has been deleted from maven official website. and now Google recommends use 'aar' file instead. But according to this Titanium official issue (https://jira.appcelerator.org/browse/TIMOB-18565 ), it is not supported by titanium yet.

so, I want to know, is it possible to let the java code ( e.g. an activity) access its 3rd-party-jar-bundled resource files ( value/string.xml or so ) from Titanium module? if so, is there any sample code that I can refer to?

thank a lot!

Answer 1

(fast & short answer: put the resources files as part of your "Titanium" project, but not put them into the "module". If you insist putting them into the "module", read on.)

Finally, I got the answer.

The official document is correct, just put the 3rd-party-jar's resource files( res folder of a native android project) under titanium module's android/platform/android folder. that's it!

e.g. my module project structure is shown as below:

# name: test_ti_module_qq_login:
android
  \--assets
  \--build
  \--dist
  \--lib
  \--libs
  \--src
  \--platform
     \--android
        \--res    # just put the resources here in your module! 
           \--drawable
           \--drawable-hdpi
           \--drawable-xhdpi
           \--layout
           \--values
assets
documentation
example
LICENSE
... 

and FYI, the native android resource folder looks like:

# A native Android project structure   
▸ assets/          
▸ bin/             
▸ gen/             
▸ libs/           
▾ res/     # these are the bundled resource files
  ▸ drawable-hdpi/     
  ▸ drawable-xhdpi/    
  ▸ layout/     
  ▸ values/    
  ▸ src/       

The root cause that why Titanium kept showing the resource files missing is that I missed some of the resource files. (but it's a bit straight that the native code demo could be run without errors, whatever, finally I got the solution )

addition:

It seems that many people met the same problem? I will open source my project in these days.

Answer 2

Updating with based on the new information. To get that to work you would just need to merge the res folder from github into your platforms/android/res folder. Then when you compile your module as normal.

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If you're accessing from within the module in java, try using TiRHelper.getApplicationResource for things you're providing.

So for example if you've added:

platforms/android/values/strings.xml hello!

The call would be

TiRHelper.getApplicationResource("string.helloworld");

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