OSCON 2012 notes

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Mon Jul 23 00:19:42 PDT 2012


On 2012-07-23 08:59, Paulo Pinto wrote:

> No, actually you are still dealing with JNI. Google's position on native
> code, is that
> you should use it just for code hotspots, gamming or to port "legacy" code.
>

> The Android native applications APIs are C wrappers around JNI calls,
> meaning you get a performance
> hit when calling them due to marshling. This is described in the
> STABLE-APIS.html document delivered
> as part of the NDK.
>
> [quote]Starting from API level 9, it is possible to entirely write an
> Android
> application with native code (i.e. without any Java). That does not mean
> that your code does not run inside a VM though, and most of the features
> of the platform will still need to be accessed through JNI.[/quote]

That is just so wrong.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg




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