First of all, let's take a look at how Native Bridge is loaded in the system. Native Bridge is loaded as part of the initialization of ART. As shown in the following diagram, it includes function calls from ART to the Native Bridge implementation. At the end of this stage, the state of Native Bridge will be set to kOpened.
Loading Native Bridge
When the system is initializing ART, the Runtime::Init function is called. Inside Runtime::Init, a LoadNativeBridge function is invoked to load the Native Bridge shared library. We can see this in the following code snippet:
bool Runtime::Init(const ...
