Managing native windows at Android NDK

The previous recipes in this chapter provided simple examples with the logcat output only. This recipe will discuss how to manage the native window at Android NDK.

Getting ready

Readers are recommended to read the following recipes before going through this one:

  • Creating a native activity with the native_activity.h interface
  • Creating a native activity with the Android native app glue

Also recall that native window management has been introduced briefly in the Displaying graphics with EGL recipe in Chapter 4, Android NDK OpenGL ES API.

How to do it…

The following steps create the sample application:

  1. Create an Android application named NativeWindowManagement. Set the package name as cookbook.chapter5.nativewindowmanagement ...

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