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Android Native Development Kit Cookbook

You're reading from   Android Native Development Kit Cookbook Create Android apps using Native C/C++ with the expert guidance contained in this cookbook. From basic routines to advanced multimedia development, it helps you harness the full power of Android NDK.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849691505
Length 346 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Liu Feipeng Liu Feipeng
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Android Native Development Kit Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Hello NDK 2. Java Native Interface FREE CHAPTER 3. Build and Debug NDK Applications 4. Android NDK OpenGL ES API 5. Android Native Application API 6. Android NDK Multithreading 7. Other Android NDK API 8. Porting and Using the Existing Libraries with Android NDK 9. Porting an Existing Application to Android with NDK Index

Building an Android NDK application for different ABIs


Native code is compiled into binaries. Therefore, one set of binaries can only run on a specific architecture. Android NDK comes with techniques and tools to allow developers to compile the same source code for multiple architectures easily.

Getting ready

An Application Binary Interface (ABI) defines how the Android application's machine code is supposed to interact with the system at runtime, including the CPU instruction set, endianness, alignment of memory, and so on. An ABI basically defines a type of architecture.

The following table briefly summarizes the four ABIs supported by Android:

ABI name

Support

Not support

Optional

armeabi

  • ARMv5TE instruction set

  • Thumb (also known as Thumb-1) instructions

Hardware-assisted floating point computation

 

armeabi-v7a

  • Whatever is supported in armeabi

  • VFP hardware FPU instructions

  • Thumb-2 instruction set

  • VFPv3-D16 is used.

 
  • Advanced SIMD (also known as NEON)

  • VFPv3-D32

  • ThumbEE

x86

  • Instruction...

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