Android SDK 2.3 - new NativeActivity class. Does it change something for 'processing' on Android?

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blandger

Android SDK 2.3 - new NativeActivity class. Does it change something for 'processing' on Android?

in Android Processing • 2 years ago

I don't have experience with processing on Android, I just read info on Android Wiki, especially about 'Integrating with other Android code' limitations.

I'm wondering is appearing of new NativeActivity class changes something ? What do you think?

Class Overview
Convenience for implementing an activity that will be implemented purely in native code. That is, a game (or game-like thing). There is no need to derive from this class; you can simply declare it in your manifest, and use the NDK APIs from there.........

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andres

Re: Android SDK 2.3 - new NativeActivity class. Does it change something for 'processing' on Android?

2 years ago

I don't think so. This NativeActivity class seems to be an additional class that allows to code the application directly in C using the NDK, for better performance.

The original Activity class remains in place in the API level 9 (Gingerbread). PApplet is a descendant of Activity.

About integration of Processing with other Android code, particularly native libs, there is some ongoing work in JNA for Android, which might be very useful in the near future.