Native development on the Android platform shouldn't be considered as a hack in the near future. The forthcoming release of the Android NDK will open official door to native code for applications. Or more exactly, Java application will be able to access some native code and libraries.
The release of the Android NDK is expected in 1H2009 (hey, do that mean that we will have it within one month ? or does 1H last until september ?).
You can get more information on the NDK ot the android-ndk Google group.
OK, after the NDK' release,we actually have a lot of work to do, we have to wrap a jni library for the current library. That's really really a boring job, and we have to move out a lot of C++ features ,cos Android doesn't support many things such as RTTI etc.
At the same time, Iphone os is so powerful that porting job is progressing perfertly even out of my expecting.That's the most completely operating system run in the mobile phone.Cool!
Hi,
Here it is just released :
http://dl.google.com/android/ndk/android-ndk-1.5_r1-linux-x86.zip
If it's possible, I'll provide deb packages of it, just tell me