Where can I browse the source code for any Android Open Source Project (AOSP) application (for example the Contacts application)? Is the only way to clone the entire source repository for all of AOSP?
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Everything is mirrored on omapzoom.org. Some of the code is also mirrored on github.
Contacts is here for example.
Since December 2019, you can use the new official public code search tool for AOSP: cs.android.com. There's also the Android official source browser (based on Gitiles) has a web view of many of the different parts that make up android. Some of the projects (such as Kernel) have been removed and it now only points you to clonable git repositories.
To get all the code locally, you can use the repo helper program, or you can just clone individual repositories.
And others:
I stumbled across Android XRef the other day and found it useful, especially since it is backed by OpenGrok which offers insanely awesome and blindingly fast search.
I've found a way to get only the Contacts application:
git clone https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Contacts
which is good enough for me for now, but doesn't answer the question of browsing the code on the web.
This eclipse plugin allows for inline source viewing and even stepping inside the Android source code:
http://code.google.com/p/adt-addons/
(edit: specifically the "Android Sources" plugin: http://adt-addons.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/source/com.android.ide.eclipse.source.update/)
gitweb will allow you to browse through the code (and changes) via a browser.
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/Gitweb
(Don't know if someone has already setup a public gitweb for Android, but it's probably not too hard.)
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