OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21729/Android_Developers_Get_Native-Code_Kit Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:32:11 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Other languages on Dalvik http://osnews.com/thread?370469 http://osnews.com/thread?370469 This is a good first step, but I actually like the VM idea, so I'd rather see an SDK allowing other languages like Python to nativity target Dalvik and the associated Google libraries. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bsharitt) Comments RE: Other languages on Dalvik http://osnews.com/thread?370481 http://osnews.com/thread?370481 There already is a scripting env or you could use Scala. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kragil) Comments why wouldnt you link to... http://osnews.com/thread?370522 http://osnews.com/thread?370522 the original release, or blog post news,... instead of another news site?

something like

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/06/introducing-android-...
or
http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/1.5_r1/index.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sn0n) Comments Fantastic! http://osnews.com/thread?370547 http://osnews.com/thread?370547 Now you can finally leverage the Linux in your Linux phone.

Way overdue, but glad it is here. The Linux developer community who didn't care to learn some non-standard Java mutant can finally be unleashed! Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (braddock) Comments RE: Fantastic! http://osnews.com/thread?370551 http://osnews.com/thread?370551 It looks like the NDK doesn't let you write whole applications in C or C++. It lets you call native libraries and include them in your application. Basically, JNI for Android's Java dialect. Hopefully, the interface is compatible with JNI.

Most applications won't make use of this but it is important for applications that want to do more computation efficiently. Also, it will allow using open source libraries which would be hard to port to Java. For example, writing an entire X server in Java would be hard but doing Xnest with an Android GUI around it would be much easier. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Znark) Comments RE[2]: Fantastic! http://osnews.com/thread?370562 http://osnews.com/thread?370562
For example, writing an entire X server in Java would be hard but doing Xnest with an Android GUI around it would be much easier.


I don't disagree with this but thought you may find these interesting: http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/ and http://www.jcraft.com/wiredx/

I imagine they wouldn't be straightforward to run on Android so it doesn't negate your point (also they are probably not as full-featured as the "real" code would be) but I thought folks might be interested anyhow. Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mark Williamson) Comments