Chapter 11. Android Game Development Using C++ and OpenGL

We have already seen the differences between an Android application and an Android game. The Android SDK is very capable of taking care of both. Certainly, the question that arises is "What is the requirement of a separate development toolset in native languages such as C and C++?" Compared to Java, C and C++ are much more difficult to manage and write code in. The answer lies in the question itself. The Java architecture runs on JVM, which is associated with the Android operating system. This creates an extra latency, which has a performance lag. The scale of the lag depends on the scale of the application.

A highly CPU-intensive application may cause a significant amount of visible lag in Java architecture. Native language code can be processed faster. Moreover, native code can be varied depending on the CPU/platform architecture, which is not possible in the case of the Java architecture used by the Android...