Yes, we're planning a native SDK. There is no official release date yet. The initial release will probably be very limited in scope, just enough to add some JNI helpers. As we lock down native API's, more functionality will be added.
On Dec 15, 5:00 pm, Jason <[email protected]> wrote: > Last week, Brian Swetland posted a comment to the g1-hackers mailing > list referencing a so-called (heh, pun) Native Development Kit. This > piqued my interest. Although there is nothing on the roadmap relating > to an official framework for 3rd party native code, there seems to be > quite a lot of interest on this list as well as other places for such > a thing. > > My question is: is this something that the Android team is working on/ > plans to work on or just a theoretical possibility? If it is indeed > planned, is there a tentative timetable or description of the > implementation specifics? Will it be an extension of the existing SDK > (i.e. better documentation and support for shared object libraries) or > will it be a completely separate kit? I'm sure some third-party > projects (Mozilla, i'm looking at you) would be very interested in > this development. > > Regards, > Jason > > http://www.telesphoreo.org/pipermail/g1-hackers/2008-December/000188.... > Dec 8, 2008, Brian Swetland wrote: > > > It is possible to bundle native shared libs in apks, and specific details > > about how to do this in a least-likely-to-break-later way will be documented > > in the forthcoming Native Development Kit (NDK). > > > Work is on-going to improve the platform APIs and provide more and better > > access to the OS and hardware (bluetooth, improved audio, etc, etc). Future > > updates will increase the surface area of the APIs. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android-framework" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-framework?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
