Hi Dianne, Thank you for the link. Hope this helps all the guys out there working on native libraries, in case they already dont know about it.
Regards Kozak On Jan 25, 11:20 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > If you are working on the platform, look at the PlatformLibrary sample code > for examples of doing all of this stuff -- writing a native library, a Java > API to it with JNI, and client applications using the Java API. > > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/development.git;a=tree;f=sa... > > > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:57 PM, kozak <c.a.subraman...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > -- > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
