On 10/14/2011 09:34 AM, Adrian Petrescu wrote:
You can run native code on Android through the NDK
<http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html>. I'm pretty sure
that's how projects like Stockfish managed it.
Yes. Android has its own dialect of the Java Native Interface. One would
have to make the backend into a library.
Another even more general solution is to run the backend in a seperate
process. This would be more cross platform.
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:30 AM, h.g. muller <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
At 14:02 13-10-2011 -0700, Arun Persaud wrote:
On 10/12/2011 03:35 PM, h.g. muller wrote:
> [...]
> Well, speaking of front ends, how about an Android front end?
think that's more than just a front end... doesn't android run
it's app
in a virtual Java machine? And the UI is also all Java as far
as I know...
Well, I know nothing about Android. But there is someone working
on an Android application for Xiangqi, who is using my engine
HaQiKi D, which is written in C. And I see announcements of
top engines like Stockfish being released for Android. It is hard
to believe that they would rewrite a 50,000+ line code base in Java
just for the purpose.
