Conventions

You will also find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Finally, create a new Gradle task ndkBuild that will manually trigger the ndk-build command."

A block of code is set as follows:

#include <unistd.h>
…
sleep(3); // in seconds

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

    if (mGraphicsManager.start() != STATUS_OK) return STATUS_KO;

    mAsteroids.initialize();
    mShip.initialize();

    mTimeManager.reset();
    return STATUS_OK;

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

adb shell stop
adb shell setprop dalvik.vm.checkjni true

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "If everything works properly, a message Late-enabling – Xcheck:jni appears in the Logcat when your application starts."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.