Android NDK: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Sylvain Ratabouil

• Éditeur: Packt Publishing
• Année: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781783989652
• Sujet: Informatik
• Sous-sujet: Anwendungsentwicklung

About This Book

• Create high performance mobile applications with C/C++ and integrate with Java
• Exploit advanced Android features such as graphics, sound, input, and sensing
• Port and reuse your own or third-party libraries from the prolific C/C++ ecosystem

Who This Book Is For

Are you an Android Java programmer who needs more performance? Are you a C/C++ developer who doesn't want to bother with the complexity of Java and its out-of-control garbage collector? Do you want to create fast intensive multimedia applications or games? If you've answered yes to any of these questions then this book is for you. With some general knowledge of C/C++ development, you will be able to dive headfirst into native Android development.

Android NDK Beginner's Guide Second Edition

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Table of Contents

Android NDK Beginner's Guide Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Time for action – heading

What just happened?

Have a go hero – heading

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Setting Up Your Environment

Getting started with Android development

Setting up Windows

Time for action – preparing Windows for Android development

What just happened?

Installing Android development kits on Windows

Time for action – installing Android SDK and NDK on Windows

What just happened?

Setting up OS X

Time for action – preparing OS X for Android development

What just happened?

Installing Android development kits on OS X

Time for action – installing Android SDK and NDK on OS X

What just happened?

Setting up Linux

Time for action – preparing Ubuntu for Android development

What just happened?

Installing Android development kits on Linux

Time for action – installing Android SDK and NDK on Ubuntu

What just happened?

Installing the Eclipse IDE

Time for action – installing Eclipse with ADT on your OS

What just happened?

Setting up the Android emulator

Time for action – creating an Android virtual device

What just happened?

Developing with an Android device

Time for action – setting up an Android device

What just happened?

More about ADB

Summary

2. Starting a Native Android Project

Building NDK sample applications

Time for action – compiling and deploying San Angeles sample

What just happened?

Generating project files with Android manager

Compiling native code with NDK-Build

Building and packaging an application with Ant

Deploying an application package with Ant

Launching an application with ADB Shell

More about Android tooling

Creating your first native Android project

Time for action – creating a native Android project

What just happened?

Introducing Dalvik and ART

Interfacing Java with C/C++

Time for action – calling C code from Java

What just happened?

Debugging native Android applications

Time for action – debugging a native Android application

What just happened?

Defining NDK application-wide settings

NDK-GDB day-to-day

Analyzing native crash dumps

Time for action – analyzing a native crash dump

What just happened?

Deciphering crash dumps

Setting up a Gradle project to compile native code

Time for action – creating a native Android project

What just happened?

Time for action – using your own Makefiles with Gradle

What just happened?

Summary

3. Interfacing Java and C/C++ with JNI

Initializing a native JNI library

Time for action – defining a simple GUI

What just happened?

Time for action – initializing the native store

What just happened?

Converting Java strings in native code

Time for action – handling strings in the native store

What just happened?

Native character encoding

JNI String API

Passing Java primitives to native code

Time for action – handling primitives in the native store

What just happened?

Have a go hero – passing and returning other primitive types

Referencing Java objects from native code

Time for action – saving references to Objects in native Store

What just happened?

Local references

Global references

Weak references

Managing Java arrays

Time for action – handling Java arrays in native Store

What just happened?

Primitive arrays

Have a go hero – handling other array types

Object arrays

Raising and checking Java exceptions

Time for action – raising & catching exceptions in native Store

What just happened?

Executing code in Exception state

Exception handling API

Summary

4. Calling Java Back from Native Code

Calling Java back from native code

Time for action – determining JNI method signatures

What just happened?

Time for action – calling back Java from native code

What just happened?

More on the JNI Reflection API

Debugging JNI

Synchronizing Java and native threads

Time for action – allocating an object with JNI

What just happened?

Time for action – running and synchronizing a thread

What just happened?

Synchronizing Java and C/C++ with JNI Monitors

Attaching and detaching native threads

Processing bitmaps natively

Time for action – decoding a camera's feed

What just happened?

Time for action – processing pictures with the Bitmap API

What just happened?

Registering native methods manually

JNI in C versus JNI in C++

Summary

5. Writing a Fully Native Application

Creating a native Activity

Time for action – creating a basic native Activity

What just happened?

More about the Native App Glue

Handling Activity events

Time for action – stepping the event loop

What just happened?

Time for action – handling Activity events

What just happened?

Accessing window surface natively

Time for action – displaying raw graphics

What just happened?

Measuring time natively

Time for action – animating graphics with a timer

What just happened?

Summary

6. Rendering Graphics with OpenGL ES

Initializing OpenGL ES

Time for action – initializing OpenGL ES

What just happened?

Time for action – clearing and swapping buffers

What just happened?

An insight into the OpenGL pipeline

Loading textures using the Asset manager

Time for action – reading assets with the Asset manager

What just happened?

More about the Asset Manager API

Time for action – compiling and embedding libpng module

What just happened?

Time for action – loading a PNG image

What just happened?

Time for action – generating an OpenGL texture

What just happened?

More about textures

Drawing 2D sprites

Time for action – initializing OpenGL ES

What just happened?

Vertex Arrays versus Vertex Buffer Object

Rendering particle effec...