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As long as we have some honest to god, native-C support I'll be pleasantly pleased. I'd rather be an android consumer rather than an android programmer, Dalvik
by yardie 14y ago
As long as we have some honest to god, native-C support I'll be pleasantly pleased. I'd rather be an android consumer rather than an android programmer, Dalvik just doesn't interest me at all.
- javert 14y agoWhy? Because you don't like having to program in Java (I'm with you there) or for other reasons?
- yardie 14y agoJava. I'm not passionate about it at all and if I can't find the motivation to learn it then I'm not going to use it. The great thing about C is it's practically universal. And the fact that you had no UI library in the NDK (this might have changed since 2.3) meant I was going nowhere with that on that front.
- Andrex 14y agoHave you checked out the Android NDK? http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html You still have to go through JNI and use Java/XML for the interface, but the NDK has been growing to encompass more and more with each release. (And in my opinion, keeping a standard way for making the actual UI users see is important for consistency. It's more difficult to enforce that with purely native apps.)