Ehem, ARM

[Joakim]

On Tuesday, 26 November 2013 at 17:12:38 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Native apps are working, just not officially supported. I 
> actually had
> a native Hello World working on ARM/Android with GDC, however 
> fixing
> bugs related to native apps usually isn't high priority on 
> Android.
>
> This bug for example wasn't fixed back then and was a 
> showstopper:
> http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=28598
I don't see how that was a showstopper when you could avoid it 
simply by using the right flags, as noted in the penultimate 
comment there.  Also, I get the impression that the build system 
makefiles for Android itself are pretty much the same as the NDK, 
so Android would have some pretty serious problems if they didn't 
get their toolchain for building native system, ie non-java, 
processes working right. ;)

> Last time I looked pure native apps couldn't use the GUI 
> though, has
> that changed?
Depends what you mean.  The NDK has always been pitched at game 
devs, so you can't call the Android UI components directly from 
native code AFAIK.  But you could use OpenGL ES 2.0 from Android 
2.0 and employ EGL with a pure native shared library app since 
Android 2.3 in 2010, so you could employ your own OpenGL-based 
GUI toolkit for a long time:

http://mobilepearls.com/labs/native-android-api/ndk/docs/STABLE-APIS.html

And you could always use JNI to do your GUI in java and 
number-crunching in C/C++, but yeah, that's not pure native.