Question

I see on Guice’s download page a module called guice-no-aop, whose intention is clearly marketing towards Android developers. Several online searches pulled back libraries like RoboGuice that look like they do similar AOP-based IoC, and several articles even give great code examples.

But my question is: Why won’t Guice run on an Android app without these special libraries? I was expecting to find something on Guice’s site/wiki, but to my surprise, couldn’t find a single reason.

Anybody know?

Edit
Ancillary to this question is a broader one:

• What other Java frameworks won’t run on Androids?!?! (What’s the rule of thumb?)

Answer 1

This page lists a few standard packages that are not supported. Anything that relies on those packages would likely not work…

Not supported These packages, normally a part of the Java 2 Platform Standard Edition, are not supported by Android.

• java.applet
• java.awt
• java.beans
• java.lang.management
• java.rmi
• javax.accessibility
• javax.activity
• javax.imageio
• javax.management
• javax.naming
• javax.print
• javax.rmi
• javax.security.auth.kerberos
• javax.security.auth.spi
• javax.security.sasl
• javax.swing
• javax.transaction javax.xml (except javax.xml.parsers)
• org.ietf.*
• org.omg.*
• org.w3c.dom.* (sub-packages)

Also as has already been pointed out AOP that relies on byte code weaving at runtime will not work (not all do, eg. Spring AOP).