26th June 2009
A new native development kit (NDK) for the Android platform has been launched to let developers call into native code from their apps.
Android apps run in the Dalvik virtual machine and parts of these apps can now be implemented using native code languages, including C and C++.
The NDK includes tools and build files to generate native code libraries, as well as native system headers and libraries to be supported in future releases of Android.
David Turner of the Android Developers blog warned that the NDK may not be suitable for all Android apps, however.
"As a developer, you will need to balance its benefits against its drawbacks ... Your application will be more complicated, have reduced compatibility, have no access to framework APIs and be harder to debug," he remarked.
Last month, a set of guidelines pertaining to icon design for the Android user interface was made available to developers.
A pack of icon templates was also released to make it easier to develop icons for Android apps.
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