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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 – stepping the event loop

Let's extend the previous example to step our application when events are processed.

  1. Open jni/Types.hpp and define a new type status to represent return codes:
    #ifndef _PACKT_TYPES_HPP_
    #define _PACKT_TYPES_HPP_
    
    #include <cstdlib>
    
    typedef int32_t status;
    
    const status STATUS_OK   = 0;
    const status STATUS_KO   = -1;
    const status STATUS_EXIT = -2;
    
    #endif
  2. Create the jni/ActivityHandler.hpp header and define an "interface" to observe native activity events. Each possible event has its own handler method: onStart(), onResume(), onPause(), onStop(), onDestroy(), and so on. However, we are generally interested in three specific moments in the activity life cycle:
    • onActivate(), invoked when the activity is resumed and ...
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