Here are some thoughts that would help bias the default choice toward Java:
- There are more Java programmers out there, and Java is taught more
than C or C++. This leads to a bigger audience of developers for Google
Play.
- The level of skill required to use C C++ effectively is
You can write Apps in C and C++ using the NDK.
https://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html
On Monday, March 31, 2014 7:19:14 AM UTC-4, NewToAndroid wrote:
Hi all,
I have this question out of curiocity.
Android is based on Linux, which is basically written in C. Why Android
Thats good to know. My intension behind asking this question was, will the apps
be faster if written in C/C++ ?
But looking at the intro of NDK, they say it won't give significant performance
improvement if apps developed in c/c++.
Is it because of the layers of basic Android architechture? Or
One big reason is that a lot of time is spent in system libraries,
which are written in C/C++. I believe in the original talk on Dalvik,
it was indicated that 70% of the time was spent in non-interpreted
code. You also have to remember that Dalvik has a JIT compiler and now
an LLVM based runtime
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