Is it possible to write Android code using c/c++?

Options
- yes
- no


CORRECT ANSWER : yes

Discussion Board
Yes

The Native Development Kit (NDK) is a set of tools that allows you to use C and C++ code with Android, and provides platform libraries.

Sapna Ambadkar 03-16-2017 02:41 AM

Android

You can program in C/C++ using the Android NDK. You'll have to wrap your c++ codebase in a static library and load that through a Java wrapper & JNI.

The standard NDK does not support RTTI and a lot of the functionality of standard c++ is also not available such as std::string, etc. To solve this you can recompile the NDK. Dmitry Moskalchuk supplies a modified version of the NDK that supports this at http://www.crystax.net/android/ndk-r3.php. This modified version works on all Android phones that run on an ARM processor.

Depending on the kind of application you should decide to use Java or C/C++. I'd use C/C++ for anything that requires above average computational power and games -- Java for the rest.

Just pick one language and write the majority of your application in that language; JNI calls can decrease your performance by a lot. Java isn't that hard though -- if you know how to program in C/C++. The advantage of Java is that the application can run on any device running Android, where as NDK applications depend on the architecture it was compiled for.

@Amarbir Singh

Amar 06-12-2015 06:18 AM

How to write android prog. with c/c++

how to write android using c/c++ is it phonegap ????

i want to know.


Chirag 06-8-2015 09:12 AM

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