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anyone else read the linked wsj article http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703554204576112723686094898.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240
by magicalist 16y ago
anyone else read the linked wsj article http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703554204576112723686094898.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870355420457611... and think this is just google hiring more native app developers? considering that google already has a bunch of native apps (wsj says 20), the whole "vs html5" thing seems a bit much.
the only interesting part seems to be the "autonomous but with google's resources" development model.
- cpeterso 16y agoGoogle's Android NDK (Native Development Kit) had been mostly bare-bones libc (and utility libs) for writing optimized C code to be called from Java/JNI. But NDK Revision 5 (December 2010) includes new native APIs for application framework and system APIs that were previously only available to C code through JNI, such as window surfaces, event loops, and sensor data. http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html