Getting Started. The Developer's Guide. Introduction: The Android NDK is a set of tools that allows Android application developers to embed native machine code compiled from C and/or C++ source files into their application packages.
IMPORTANT: The Android NDK can only be used to target Android system images running Cupcake (a.k.a 1.5) or later versions of the platform. 1.0 and 1.1 system images are specifically *not* supported due to subtle ABI and toolchain changes that happened for the 1.5 release. I. Android NDK Goals: The Android VM allows your application's source code to call methods implemented in native code through the JNI.
In a nutshell, this means that: - Your application's source code will declare one or more methods with the 'native' keyword to indicate that they are implemented through native code. II. The NDK is *not* a good way to write generic native code that runs on Android devices. III. III.1/ Configuring the NDK: Previous releases required that you run the 'build/host-setup.sh' script to configure your NDK. OpenAL on Android. Although being slightly late with 3D Audio Support for Android 2.3 announced – this tutorial shows how to compile OpenAL for Android, so you can provide 3D Sound in your apps with 2.2 and below.
The code has successfully been tested with the Nexus One (2.2) and the G1 (1.6). Update: the resulting project for download as a single .zip file. To run the example create a directory called wav on your device’s SD card and put a sound file called lake.wav into it. Update: some people reported latency issues. It can possibly be fixed in the OpenAL source. Update: if you are using a NativeActivity, and the app crashes on device = alcOpenDevice( NULL ); please take a look at Garen’s fix to the getEnv() method: Understand how to compile NDK resources This tutorial requires working with the Android NDK. Remember to PRESS F5 after you COMPILED the SHARED OBJECT. Create HelloOpenAL Project Create a normal Android SDK Project. The first step will be to compile OpenAL for Android. Using Eclipse for Android C/C++ Debugging. Yes.
You can use Eclipse for debugging of C/C++ code. I personally prefer cgdb but if you want to debug in Eclipse here is how. See my previous spot how to set up cgdb debugger if you think it will suit you. See my blog spot how to set up Eclipse for compiling and editing C/C++ code. 0) Prerequisities You need Eclipse with CDT installed.