1 This tool can be used to extract platform annotations, for use by 2 Android Studio, IntelliJ, and lint. It creates a .zip file with 3 external annotations in a format that IntelliJ and lint can read. This 4 allows annotations to live separately from the actual library's .class 5 files. This is particularly useful for annotations that have source 6 retention that we still want to allow the IDE to be aware 7 of. Furthermore, for the typedef annotations in particular, compiled 8 annotations cannot hold all the information we want to capture (e.g. a 9 reference to the actual field that is part of the typedef, not its 10 inlined value.) 11 12 To build it, run "gradle installApp", then look in build/install for 13 the extract command. 14
