1URL: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/downloads/list 2Version: v3.0.0-beta3 3License: Google BSD like 4Description: "Protobuf: The Google protobuf compiler and runtimes for various languages" 5 6Local changes: 7 8Local Modifications: 9 - Initial changes include support for the micro protobuf compiler and the 10 assoicated runtime. 11 - https://github.com/google/protobuf/pull/2732: const FieldDescriptorCompare 12 13Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient 14yet extensible format. Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all 15of its internal RPC protocols and file formats. 16 17Initially the protoc compiler is not integrated into the Android build system 18and the Android.mk will simply build the javamicro runtime static library. 19 20To build the compiler follow the instructions in README.txt for 21compiling and installing. 22 23The Android.mk file creates the a static library which can be added 24to any Android application by Adding to LOCAL_STATIC_JAVA_LIBRARIES 25com.google.protobuf.micro: 26 27 LOCAL_STATIC_JAVA_LIBRARIES += com.google.protobuf.micro 28 29Follow the instructions in Micro section of java/README.txt for 30details on compiling .proto files for the micro runtine. 31