Tag: android
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An introduction to native backed objects with the Android NDK
As many Android developers know the Android NDK is used to cross-compile native (C/C++) code to run in Android programs. Unfortunately, because it uses JNI we’re limited to a C-style call interface. Tools like SWIG can be used to automatically generate wrappers for existing code including C++ classes. In this post I’ll provide an introduction […]
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Over-aggressive GCC optimization can cause SIGBUS crash when using memcpy with the Android NDK
At work we’ve been developing new Android hardware, and as such I’ve been porting a lot of our existing C/C++ code to Android using the NDK, a collection of GNU build tools (gcc, objcopy, etc.) and associated scripts to aid the development of native C/C++ code on Android. One of our projects is nearly 1000 source […]