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The Dex builder can now generate calls to methods (although not in all forms yet). To help do this, we add a new virtual Instruction and Value class. This is needed to generate code with values that are not known until the entire method has been generated. In particular, we can now refer to function parameters. The test method now accepts a String and returns the the length of the string. Bug: 111895153 Change-Id: I11d52b083ae51d8151fccb1a65e45d40ff05fd81
View Compiler
This directory contains an experimental compiler for layout files.
It will take a layout XML file and produce a CompiledLayout.java file with a specialized layout inflation function.
To use it, let's assume you had a layout in my_layout.xml and your app was in
the Java language package com.example.myapp. Run the following command:
viewcompiler my_layout.xml --package com.example.myapp --out CompiledView.java
This will produce a CompiledView.java, which can then be compiled into your
Android app. Then to use it, in places where you would have inflated
R.layouts.my_layout, instead call CompiledView.inflate.
Precompiling views like this generally improves the time needed to inflate them.
This tool is still in its early stages and has a number of limitations.
- Currently only one layout can be compiled at a time.
mergeandincludenodes are not supported.- View compilation is a manual process that requires code changes in the application.
- This only works for apps that do not use a custom layout inflater.
- Other limitations yet to be discovered.