That's why I said "virtually". As far as I can see NDK is a step forward but will be limited to do some certain performance related tasks. I would expect a full Dalvik extension layer that we can use to provide wrappers for all the C libs out there. Not sure if NDK allows this, will do some more reading.
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Veli Ogla > Sungutay<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Android uses Linux as its kernel [105], but according to Google, it is > not > >> a conventional Linux distribution. It does not have a native X Window > >> System, nor does it support the full set of standard GNU libraries like > its > >> system libraries (GNU C Library). This specific modification makes it > >> difficult to reuse existing Linux applications or libraries on Android. > > > > On top of these, there is virtually no way in Android to develop in C. I > > guess Dalvic wrappers have to be written for Clutter. > > They've released a "native" SDK: > http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/1.5_r1/index.html > -- Veli Sungutay http://www.lyciasoft.com
