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Android NDK Beginner`s Guide - Second Edition
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Android NDK Beginner`s Guide - Second Edition

by Sylvain Ratabouil
April 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
494 pages
10h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Time for action – processing pictures with the Bitmap API

Let's continue our application by decoding and filtering images on the native side by the color channel:

  1. Create native C source, jni/CameraDecoder.c (not a C++ file, so that we can see the difference with JNI code written in C++).

    Include android/bitmap.h, which defines the NDK bitmap processing API and stdlib.h (not cstdlib as this file is written in C):

    #include <android/bitmap.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    ...

    Write a few utility macros to help decode a video.

    • toInt() converts a jbyte to an integer, erasing all useless bits with a mask
    • max() gets the maximum between two values
    • clamp() clamps a value inside a defined interval
    • color() builds an ARGB color from each color component
      ... #define toInt(pValue) ...
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