Usage of javaagent with Android

Question

I've recently became interested in DBC methodology. As Java is my "native" language I've looked at cofoja and more recently java-on-contracts. I mainly create Android software, so naturally I'd like to be able to use contracts on my phone.

Both projects require the usage of something similar to

java -javaagent:path/to/cofoja-<version>.jar <someclass>

as JVM parameter. Is it possible to use this JVM parameter to launch apk on phone? Does dalvik even support this kind of parameters?

How could I even pass this parameter to start an application? I don't have a clue on how to start. Maybe through an ant script?

Konstantin Pribluda · Answer 1 · 2012-10-04T11:19:26.437

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Closest thing to javaagent on android is instrumentation:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Instrumentation.html

but I doubt cofoja wil support this out of the box. I think it would be possible to implement this but not sure whether such project already started

And here is project goung roughly in direction desired by you:

http://code.google.com/p/droidbox/

edited Oct 04 '12 at 11:19

answered Oct 04 '12 at 11:04

Konstantin Pribluda

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Do you know any other DBC library which I could use on android? Also the project you mention would be quite hard to use for DBC imo. – kajman Oct 04 '12 at 12:09
Unfortunately I'm not aware of it. My interest in android are in other areas ( dependency injection ) – Konstantin Pribluda Oct 04 '12 at 12:23

Usage of javaagent with Android

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