Retrieving a list of classes from a package in an Android project

Question

I'm aware that it isn't easily feasible to get all of the classes in a package using reflection, but I'm wondering if someone knows of a good solution/workaround, specifically for an Android project?

Given a package, I need to be able to retrieve all of the classes from it and process annotations from them using reflection.

Does anyone know of a way to do this? Are there any libraries available?

Answer 1

Scanning the filesystem as most solutions for non-Android Java do won't help on Android. Here's a (theoretical) solution that is android-specific: http://mindtherobot.com/blog/737/android-hacks-scan-android-classpath/

However, it remains a hack, since Java unfortunately does not directly support this.