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50 Android Hacks
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50 Android Hacks

by Carlos Sessa
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
216 pages
6h 3m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 8. Interacting with other languages

Android applications are coded mainly in Java. Officially, Android also supports C/C++ using the Android NDK (Native Development Kit). But is it possible to develop applications using other programming languages? In this chapter, we’ll analyze the other possibilities.

Hack 33 Running Objective-C in Android: Android v1.6+

During the summer of 2011, my company released an iOS game called Shaman Doctor. The game was developed using cocos2d-iphone, an iOS library. The cocos2d-iphone library is coded in Objective-C, but there are a lot of forks that offer the same API in other programming languages. One of the most active forks is cocos2d-x. Instead of using Objective-C, cocos2d-x uses C++, and the most ...

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