15. Android Native Development
This chapter shows two different strategies for integrating native C code into Android applications. One strategy is to use Java Native Interface (JNI) to write wrapper functions in C and then Java to access a library of C code. The other strategy is to make use of the native activity, which allows an application not to have any Java code at all.
Android Native Components
When a computationally intensive function is critical to an Android application, it might be worthwhile to move the intensive computation to native C or C++ for efficiency. The Android Native Development Kit (NDK) exists to help in the development of a native component. The NDK is a companion to the Android SDK and includes a bundle of libraries ...
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