Google Android Can be Programmed in C/C++ (Sort Of!)
Thursday November 15, 2007
I spotted this on an Australian website and thought that with all the publicity about Android-
Google having just released an
SDK for their forthcoming open source driven mobile phone. Unfortunately the main development language is Java but as it's a Linux box, assuming you have a cross compiler that generates machine code for the ARM GNU/Linux Target it is possible to write and run C/C++ code. I haven't tried it out yet though.
That said, Google's SDK and intention for application development is only in Java (boo!). A big shame as they are offering $10 million in awards to encourage development of applications. I've a feeling though that with the low level machine being Linux that sooner rather than later, you will see applications in C especially as they run 10 to 100 x as fast as Java code! That is of course speculation on my part based on what I've seen happen on PSP and XBOX. consoles.
- Link to C Tutorials
- Link to C++ Tutorials
Comments
Hi,
I am a big fan of C++, not as experienced as you but I do okay.
I think that you underestimate Java. I don’t like Java, sometimes I use it but I really don’t like it.However I am pretty sure that Java is not that slow. At least not since Java Tiger
A parasitic applications cannot be fater than native especilay the ones doing interpretation all the time
Hi everybody, I don’t know if someone is going to read this but I’m a beginner in C++ and I don’t like JAVA neither. Moreover I believe in Open Source and I hope it will kill Microsoft & Apple soon
. So when I heard about Android I was interested a lot and I’m about to buy G1 or G2 , so I’d like to know if it will be possible to code in C++ since you assume it will work without having tested it, I would like to be sure before spending a lot of money. Thanks.
PS : Sorry if I did mistake in my comment I’m French and my English is far from being perfect
C++ is needed to run code faster, e.g. games and not only for rendering.
If they were to disable malloc/new they can provide custom containers (with destructors) so memory is more or less automatic.
I like the open Source , i think the android must sure the programmer could deveplment in c/c++.so people coulde develpment application by the language theirselves liking.