Android Native Development Kit Cookbook

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Hello NDK
• Introduction
• Setting up an Android NDK development environment in Windows
• Setting up an Android NDK development environment in Ubuntu Linux
• Setting up an Android NDK development environment in Mac OS
• Updating Android NDK
• Writing a Hello NDK program

• Chapter 2: Java Native Interface
• Introduction
• Loading native libraries and registering native methods
• Passing parameters and receiving returns in primitive types
• Manipulating strings in JNI
• Managing references in JNI
• Manipulating classes in JNI
• Manipulating objects in JNI
• Manipulating arrays in JNI
• Accessing Java static and instance fields in the native code
• Calling static and instance methods from the native code
• Caching jfieldID, jmethodID, and referencing data to improve performance
• Checking errors and handling exceptions in JNI
• Integrating assembly code in JNI

• Chapter 3: Build and Debug NDK Applications
• Introduction
• Building an Android NDK application at the command line
• Building an Android NDK application in Eclipse
• Building an Android NDK application for different ABIs
• Building Android NDK applications for different CPU features
• Debugging an Android NDK application with logging messages
• Debugging an Android NDK application with CheckJNI
• Debugging an Android NDK application with NDK GDB
• Debugging an Android NDK application with CGDB
• Debugging an Android NDK application in Eclipse

• Chapter 4: Android NDK OpenGL ES API
• Introduction
• Drawing 2D Graphics and applying transforms with the OpenGL ES 1.x API
• Drawing 3D graphics and lighting up the scene with the OpenGL ES 1.x API
• Mapping texture to 3D objects with the OpenGL ES 1.x API
• Drawing 3D graphics with the OpenGL ES 2.0 API
• Displaying graphics with EGL

• Chapter 5: Android Native Application API
• Introduction
• Creating a native activity with the native_activity.h interface
• Creating a native activity with the Android native app glue
• Managing native windows at Android NDK
• Detecting and handling input events at Android NDK
• Accessing sensors at Android NDK
• Managing assets at Android NDK

• Chapter 6: Android NDK Multithreading
• Introduction
• Creating and terminating native threads at Android NDK
• Synchronizing native threads with mutex at Android NDK
• Synchronizing native threads with conditional variables at Android NDK
• Synchronizing native threads with reader/writer locks at Android NDK
• Synchronizing native threads with semaphore at Android NDK
• Scheduling native threads at Android NDK
• Managing data for native threads at Android NDK

• Chapter 7: Other Android NDK API
• Introduction
• Programming with the jnigraphics library in Android NDK
• Programming with the dynamic linker library in Android NDK
• Programming with the zlib compression library in Android NDK
• Programming audio with the OpenSL ES audio library in Android NDK
• Programming with the OpenMAX AL multimedia library in Android NDK

• Chapter 8: Porting and Using the Existing Libraries with Android NDK
• Introduction
• Porting a library as a shared library module with the Android NDK build system
• Porting a library as a static library module with the Android NDK build system
• Porting a library with its existing build system using the Android NDK toolchain
• Using a library as a prebuilt library
• Using a library in multiple projects with import-module
• Porting a library that requires RTTI, exception, and STL support

• Chapter 9: Porting an Existing Application to Android with NDK
• Introduction
• Porting a command-line executable to Android with an NDK build system
• Porting a command-line executable to Android with an NDK standalone compiler
• Adding GUI to a ported Android app
• Using background threads at porting

• Index