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This is incredibly exciting! This means that it is only a matter of time before some industrious developer starts implementing codecs and other niceties that ar

by teilo 17y ago

This is incredibly exciting! This means that it is only a matter of time before some industrious developer starts implementing codecs and other niceties that are not practical to implement in the VM. (Like: an MP3 encoder for live audio recordings). The future looks bright for Android. This also means (theoretically) that there is no reason that Android apps cannot compete with the iPhone in terms of speed.

jcl 17y ago
...eventually. From the linked forum page: The initial goal is to support JNI shared libraries written in C or C++ that link with the Android versions of libc and libm. In a future release we hope to support linking with OpenGL ES and audio libraries, which should enable high-performance games. I'm eagerly awaiting that release. :)
SwellJoe 17y ago
Not to mention opening up a huge array of Open Source software written in C/C++ for possible porting to Android, without having to rewrite entirely in a JVM language. Like, say, NetHack.