how to create an android project programmatically?

Question

I'm working on an eclipse plugin that needs to offer the option of creating a new Android Project from a given apk. I basically want to use the information from the AndroidManifest.xml in the apk to do the project setup.

Basically the steps I want to follow are:

1. unpack the apk using apktool
2. create Android project using some information from the unpacked apk.

I have done this successfully doing both steps manually (as idicated in http://codebangers.com/?p=584 )

However, now I'd like to automate the process and do it programmatically. I was able to do step 1. programmatically.

Regarding step 2. I know the eclipse ADT plugin provides a NewProjectCreator class, however it seems I should not use this class to create the project since the class helps says:

  /**
   * The actual project creator invoked from the New Project Wizard
   * <p/>
   * Note: this class is public so that it can be accessed from unit tests.
   * It is however an internal class. Its API may change without notice.
   * It should semantically be considered as a private final class.
   */

Does anybody know what is the correct way of programmatically creating an Android project?

Answer 1

Not sure if that is possible for security seasons, however you could change the extension of the apk towards a zip file. If you open the zip file you could see the application code/resources