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Android Native Development Kit Cookbook

By : Liu Feipeng
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Android Native Development Kit Cookbook

By: Liu Feipeng

Overview of this book

Building Android applications would usually mean that you spend all of your time working in Java. There are however times when this is not the most efficient or best method for the application being built. This is where Android NDK comes in. Android NDK allows the developer to write in Native C/C++, giving you the power to reuse code and libraries and also, in most cases, increase the speed and efficiency of your application.The "Android Native Development Kit Cookbook" will help you understand the development, building, and debugging of your native Android applications. We will discover and learn JNI programming and essential NDK APIs such as OpenGL ES, and the native application API. We will then explore the process of porting existing libraries and software to NDK. By the end of this book you will be able to build your own apps in NDK apps."Android Native Development Kit Cookbook" begins with basic recipes that will help you in the building and debugging of native apps, and JNI programming. The recipes cover various topics of application development with Android NDK such as OpenGL programming and Multimedia programming. We will begin with a simple recipe, Hello NDK, before moving on to cover advanced topics with recipes on OpenGL ES that focus on 2D and 3D graphics, as well as recipes that discuss working with NDK and external APIs. If you are looking for ways to make your application available in Android and take measures to boost your application's performance, then this Cookbook is for you.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Android Native Development Kit Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Loading native libraries and registering native methods


Native code is usually compiled into a shared library and loaded before the native methods can be called. This recipe covers how to load native libraries and register native methods.

Getting ready

Please read the recipes in Chapter 1, Hello NDK, to set up the Android NDK development environment if you haven't done so already.

How to do it…

The following steps will show you how to build an Android application that demonstrates loading native libraries and registering native methods:

  1. Start Eclipse, select File | New | Android Project. Enter the value for Project Name as NativeMethodsRegister. Select Create new project in workspace. Then, click on Next.

  2. In the next window, select the latest version of Android SDK, then click on Next to go to the next window.

  3. Specify the package name as cookbook.chapter2. Select the Create Activity checkbox, and specify the name as NativeMethodsRegisterActivity. Set the value for Minimum SDK as 5 (Android 2...