Android Native Development Kit Cookbook: Create Android apps using Native C/C++ with the expert guidance contained in this cookbook. From basic routines to advanced multimedia development, it helps you harness the full power of Android NDK.

Liu Feipeng

mar 2013 · Packt Publishing Ltd

Informazioni su questo ebook

Create Android apps using Native C/C++ with the expert guidance contained in this cookbook. From basic routines to advanced multimedia development, it helps you harness the full power of Android NDK.Key Features

• Build, debug, and profile Android NDK apps
• Implement part of Android apps in native C/C++ code
• Optimize code performance in assembly with Android NDK

Book DescriptionBuilding Android applications would usually mean that you spend all of your time working in Java. There are however times when this is not the most efficient or best method for the application being built. This is where Android NDK comes in. Android NDK allows the developer to write in Native C/C++, giving you the power to reuse code and libraries and also, in most cases, increase the speed and efficiency of your application.The "Android Native Development Kit Cookbook" will help you understand the development, building, and debugging of your native Android applications. We will discover and learn JNI programming and essential NDK APIs such as OpenGL ES, and the native application API. We will then explore the process of porting existing libraries and software to NDK. By the end of this book you will be able to build your own apps in NDK apps."Android Native Development Kit Cookbook" begins with basic recipes that will help you in the building and debugging of native apps, and JNI programming. The recipes cover various topics of application development with Android NDK such as OpenGL programming and Multimedia programming. We will begin with a simple recipe, Hello NDK, before moving on to cover advanced topics with recipes on OpenGL ES that focus on 2D and 3D graphics, as well as recipes that discuss working with NDK and external APIs. If you are looking for ways to make your application available in Android and take measures to boost your application's performance, then this Cookbook is for you.What you will learn

• Develop Android apps in C/C++ without a single line of Java
• Program 2D/3D graphics with both OpenGL ES 1x and 2.0 in Android NDK
• Write multi-threaded Android apps in Android NDK
• Port existing C/C++ libraries and applications to Android with NDK
• Develop multimedia Android apps with Android NDK

Who this book is for

Android developers who want to learn Android NDK programming, or develop multimedia and games in Android NDK will benefit from this book.

Valutazioni e recensioni

The book gives a very detailed and exhaustive description of entry-level, intermediate and advanced techniques that could be used with Android NDK. All chapters, that are more or less independent of each other, explore specific arguments of Android JNI and NDK aspects. For the first time I saw in an Android NDK book the description of OpenGL (2D and 3D) and OpenMAX technologies from a native point of view. This allow you to write Android applications with a very limited number of Java code lines! In addition to that, the author describes a typical not documented approach in several other Android NDK books: the porting of an existing application to Android with NDK. This is a very useful chapter for people that could want to reuse existing libraries and applications written in C/C++ inside an Android one. I have to say that this book is not for everyone. You need to be a good C/C++ programmer because there are several required knowledges that must be well known by the reader, but if you love C/C++ language and in the same time you want to build applications for your Android device, this book is for you.

Informazioni sull'autore

Feipeng Liu is a technology enthusiast with a focus on multimedia systems and applications. He started mobile applications development in 2008 on Windows Mobile. In 2010, he started developing apps for Android with NDK. His Android apps have been used by many users. One of his apps, Video Converter Android, reached 1 million downloads within 10 months. Feipeng received his B.ENG in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University and Master of Computing degree in the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore.