Re: [android-developers] Are Android apps developed with the NDK slower than their counterparts on other OS's?

Hi Simon, (I've put you in CC because for some reason my mails to android-developers are still not getting through.) I've also asked myself the same question. The thing is that Android API probably doesn't expose low level APIs for doing hardware accelerated surface scaling and color space ( YUV

Re: [android-developers] Are Android apps developed with the NDK slower than their counterparts on other OS's?

Hello Vedran! Thank you for your answer! Do you know whether these low-level APIs are exposed on other platforms (Windows Mobile, iPhone and so on)? I always thought that DivX playback on Windows Mobile, for instance, was purely software decoded. The VFP instructions you referred to are actually

[android-developers] Are Android apps developed with the NDK slower than their counterparts on other OS's?

Hello developers! I've been wondering lately, about the sad situation of media playback on Android - namely: Video that isn't supported in hardware and/ or natively supported by Android OS. Coming from Windows Mobile devices, I was suprised (and frankly, dismayed) to see that things like simple p