Jun 29, 2009
A good news for mobile or MID’s ( Mobile internet Devices) Application developers . Finally Google has launched the much awaited NDK[Native Development Kit] which now can be used by many programmer’s.
What is the NDK?
The Android Native Development Kit is a suite of tools and documentation that enable developers to create native code executables and shared libraries. In its first release it is targeted towards Java application developers who wish to write native code shared libraries to access native code APIs or accelerate portions of their application.
We hope to make the first version of the NDK available in 1H2009. At first only a small subset of the full set of Linux and Android APIs will be supported, but in later releases additional APIs will be supported.
* The initial goal is to support JNI shared libraries written in C or C++ that link with the Android versions of libc and libm.
* In a future release we hope to support linking with OpenGL ES and audio libraries, which should enable high-performance games.
* The NDK can also be used to compile Linux executables and shared libraries that only require the subset of Linux APIs that are supported by the NDK. This might be useful for developers wishing to port utility programs to help develop and test their Android applications.
However the new Android 1.5 NDK doesn’t actually allow mobile developers to run completely native code on MIDs. Instead, it supports adding native code into applications written to run in Dalvik virtual machine (DVM) instances.
Android 1.5 NDK aims to attrac
t more mobile apps developers to the platform in a similar way as the iPhone has done.
Some Important Links:
Download Android SDK 1.5 here:
Download Android SDK for Microsoft Windows
Download Android SDK for Linux
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