[Simple-support] Android compiled XML resources

[Alec P. <al...@et...>]

I would like to use the simple framework to instantiate objects from
compiled xml resources (from the /res/xml directory) in an Android app. I've
explored this a little bit, and here are the issues I've come across so far:

1) I need to start the framework using an existing XmlPullParser (obtained
from Resources.getXml()). I can't do that when PullReader has default
visibility and NodeBuilder.read(EventReader) is private. (I got past this by
forking the framework code).

2) XmlResourceParser (the concrete class that you get from
Resources.getXml()) throws an exception when you call getNamespace() and
getAttributeNamespace(). (I got past this by changing PullReader not to call
those methods.)

3) The values returned are the raw string values provided. What I'd like to
retrieve are the referenced resources (so instead of "@string/some_string" I
would like the value to be "some string value"). I stopped here to see if
anybody else has looked into the problem.

I suspect that the right way to do this is to write a class implementing the
InputNode interface to wrap around XmlResourceParser. This may not be faster
than using a "raw" xml file, but I would like to leverage the resource
localization of the Android framework.