Chapter 9. Asynchronous Work on the Native Layer
In previous chapters, we have been using Java thread APIs and concurrent primitives delivered by the Android SDK to build our asynchronous constructs. A Java thread, an independent line of execution in our application, is automatically attached to the Android virtual machine and is bound to one native thread on the system. In previous chapter examples, we executed Java compiled bytecode on the JVM and used Java synchronization and concurrent primitives to solve correctness and liveness issues.
In this chapter, we will make use of the Java Native Interface (JNI) to execute code written in C/C++ and compile it to native code. The native code, which runs directly on the hardware and makes use of the ...
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