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farmdve
farmdve

Reputation: 786

Developing for Android on the phone itself

I read about AIDE and it's ability to develop and compile Java directly on Android but what about C support? I read that the PC Android NDK adds full C support only if you wrap it in a dll but a newer version would allow apps to be developed directly in C without any wrapper. Is there anything like that for Android as well? I know of c4droid and it's gcc plugin but I assume that is for developing for x86 and not ARM.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 784

Answers (3)

MOHAMED
MOHAMED

Reputation: 43606

you can use NDK with JNI (Java Native Interface) the following example is simple and could help you to understand quickly the NDK and JNI:

Using NDK to Call C code from Android Apps

The following document contains more examples and details concerning the use of NDK and JNI

JNI Examples for Android

Your C code will be build as dynamic linux library (.so) and will be loaded when your application start. The use of JNI will allow your JAVA code to use the C functions from the library. The use of such solution (calling C function from JAVA) is very useful especially if you have complicated and long duration algorithms. executing such algoritms in C take much less time comparing to Java.

Upvotes: 0

uvesten
uvesten

Reputation: 3365

Well, you could install linux (Ubuntu, in this case) on your phone and put your development environment in there, I guess.

Check https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zpwebsites.ubuntuinstall

Upvotes: 0

Frank Anemaet
Frank Anemaet

Reputation: 179

With Android Native Development Kit (NDK) you can implement parts of your application using C. http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html. If you write native code, your applications are still packaged into an .apk file and they still run inside of a virtual machine on the device. The fundamental Android application model does not change.

Upvotes: 1

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