Businesses have many choices when it
comes to mobile application development. They can go for any of the available
platforms including Android, iOS, BlackBerry or Windows Phone. They can also
choose a web based mobile application development in case they want to be
platform independent. But, if they want a global exposure to their business
apps, they need to go for a globally popular platform, e.g. Android. Android is
a leading mobile platform with more than 70 percent market share. Businesses
have discovered that Android application development can let them explore a
fresh world of prospects.
Android
application development opens up
the possibility of implementing Java managed code platform. It is an
independently developed Java machine known as Dalvik. Native code opens up the
possibility of interfacing through JNI.
Though it is presently unsupported
Google Android team is working assiduously to develop the Android Native
Development Kit for officially integration of C/C++ native code with Java using
JNI for a perfect solution.
Using a particular technology, such
as programming language and tools for Android application development mostly
depends on the skills of developers. But developer's familiarity with C or C++
cannot be merely a reason to use the NDK. Unless, development team is
proficient to handle this technology, they should not use it.
Many times, using native code
technology can be beneficial. This method is useful in processing data or
computing physics and graphics for games. Other good reasons include access to
existing native libraries and high-level code.
for using native code, they should
stay away from it.
