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Vaandroid uses a system of *publishing interfaces as services*. If you follow simple conventions, the runtime will publish the interfaces automatically. You can also manually publish a service if you need a more fine-grained control.

feature: put preference location in vaandroid.xml configuration 

# Vaandroid Plugin

convention: vaandroid.xml in the root of the plugin.

# Preferences

convention: /META-INF/preferences.xml file and any xml files in the /META-INF/preferences folder .

# Resources

convention: your-package>>.R.java.

# Android Manifest Resources

Vaandroid uses OSGi to dynamically advertise manifest entries.

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