Hi Dianne, Thank you for your reply. Sorry for the confusion. I did not intend to develop native app using the Android SDK. I do understand that the SDK does not support native code in applications.
My intention is the following: I have downloaded the android source code from source.android.com . I have built a kernel image and a rootfs using the CodeSorcery toolchain. The basic image comes up. I would like to know if I can develop native libraries, for ex: multimedia framework, or codecs that run on a DSP (I have a OMAP3 hardware). And also to have JNI wrappers to have applications access the multimedia framework APIs. Thanks in advance for your response. Regards Kozak On Jan 25, 2:06 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > This isn't a matter of the OHA all. The current Android SDK does not > support applications with native code. Period. The only situation where > native code is currently supported is for things that are built in to the > system image of a device, because in that case the native code can be > rebuilt each time the system changes to match that system and not break. > > > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:51 AM, kozak <c.a.subraman...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Dianne, > > > Thanks for the input. I would like to know what kind of licensing as > > of now allows 3rd party to develop native apps. Is it that only > > members of OHA get to develop native apps "for now" and it would be > > open to the open source community sometime in the future? > > > Tersely put, what should a one (individual/company) do to develop > > native apps? > > > 1. Become an OHA member? > > 2. Any other alternative? > > > Thanks in advance > > Kozak > > > On Jan 23, 4:54 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 8:43 PM, venu <vjosy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 1. Can I have anroid w/o the davlick vm, application framework, and > > APIS ? > > > > You can take Linux + whatever user space libraries you want, but I > > > personally I wouldn't call this "Android" any more. > > > > > 2. The motivation here is write custom applications on top libraries > > > > provided by anriod platform ? In others words, I want to strip of java > > > > virtual m/c, application framework and use anroid ? > > > > That isn't Android. A lot of what makes Android what it is the Java > > code, > > > which implements everything from window management and application and > > > process management to the user-space view hierarchy and other client > > > frameworks. > > > > > 3. Does Anroid platform have a shell which comes up once we boot on > > > > the target can be used to run applications (strictly for debugging > > > > purposes) ? > > > > Use adb for this. > > > > > 4. Motivation here is to use either c++ or c language for development > > > > of applications.... > > > > Android applications at this point must include some Java code to > > interact > > > with the rest of the system. If (and only if) you are writing an app > > that > > > will be shipped on a device, you can use JNI for its Java code to call > > some > > > native code that implements significant parts of the app. But eventually > > > there needs to be Java code to interact with the activity manager, window > > > manager, etc. > > > > And of course right now native code in third party apps is NOT supported, > > so > > > those have to be all Java. > > > > -- > > > Dianne Hackborn > > > Android framework engineer > > > hack...@android.com > > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > > > provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public > > > forums, where I and others can see and answer them. > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public > forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
