Add privileged app support in Soong
Allow apps to specify that they should be installed in priv-app,
and export the value to Make which normally handles installation.
Test: m checkbuild
Change-Id: I79a05e7bb6ec0df5c31429e2f4592c6fd57dab70
diff --git a/java/app.go b/java/app.go
index ed6a9db..e8dc535 100644
--- a/java/app.go
+++ b/java/app.go
@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@
Resource_dirs []string
Instrumentation_for *string
+
+ // Specifies that this app should be installed to the priv-app directory,
+ // where the system will grant it additional privileges not available to
+ // normal apps.
+ Privileged *bool
}
type AndroidApp struct {
@@ -152,6 +157,8 @@
if ctx.ModuleName() == "framework-res" {
// framework-res.apk is installed as system/framework/framework-res.apk
ctx.InstallFile(android.PathForModuleInstall(ctx, "framework"), ctx.ModuleName()+".apk", a.outputFile)
+ } else if Bool(a.appProperties.Privileged) {
+ ctx.InstallFile(android.PathForModuleInstall(ctx, "priv-app"), ctx.ModuleName()+".apk", a.outputFile)
} else {
ctx.InstallFile(android.PathForModuleInstall(ctx, "app"), ctx.ModuleName()+".apk", a.outputFile)
}