Time for action – creating a basic native Activity

We are now going to see how to create a minimal native activity that runs an event loop.

1. Create a new hybrid Java/C++ project, as shown in Chapter 2, Starting a Native Android Project.

   • Name it DroidBlaster.

   • Turn the project into a native project, as already seen in the previous chapter. Name the native module droidblaster.

   • Remove the native source and header files that have been created by ADT.

   • Remove the reference to the Java src directory in Project Properties | Java Build Path | Source. Then, remove the directory itself on disk.

   • Get rid of all layouts in the res/layout directory.

   • Get rid of jni/droidblaster.cpp if it has been created.

2. In AndroidManifest.xml, use Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen as the application theme.

   Declare a NativeActivity that refers to the native module named droidblaster (that is, the native library we will compile) using the meta-data property android.app.lib_name:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <manifest xmlns...