We released the first version of the Native Development Kit, a development toolchain for building shared libraries in C or C++ that can be used in conjunction with Android applications written in the Java programming language, way back in July of 2009. Since that initial release we’ve steadily improved support for native code; key features such as OpenGL ES support, debugging capabilities, multiple ABI support, and access to bitmaps in native code have arrived with each NDK revision. The result has been pretty awesome: we’ve seen huge growth in certain categories of performance-critical applications, particularly 3D games.
These types of applications are often impractical via Dalvik due to execution speed requirements or, more commonly, because they are based on engines already developed in C or C++. Early on we noted a strong relationship between the awesomeness of the NDK and the awesomeness of the applications that it made possible; at the limit of this function is obviously infinite awesomeness (see graph, right).
With the latest version of the NDK we intend to further increase the awesomeness of your applications, this time by a pretty big margin. With NDK r5, we’re introducing new APIs that will allow you to do more from native code. In fact, with these new tools, applications targeted at Gingerbread or later can be implemented entirely in C++; you can now build an entire Android application without writing a single line of Java.
Of course, access to the regular Android API still requires Dalvik, and the VM is still present in native applications, operating behind the scenes. Should you need to do more than the NDK interfaces provide, you can always invoke Dalvik methods via JNI. But if you prefer to work exclusively in C++, the NDK r5 will let you build a main loop like this:

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代码:

void android_main(struct android_app* state) {
    // Make sure glue isn't stripped.
    app_dummy();

    // loop waiting for stuff to do.
    while (1) {
        // Read all pending events.
        int ident;
        int events;
        struct android_poll_source* source;

        // Read events and draw a frame of animation.
        if ((ident = ALooper_pollAll(0, NULL, &events,
                (void**)&source)) >= 0) {
            // Process this event.
            if (source != NULL) {
                source->process(state, source);
            }
        }
        // draw a frame of animation
        bringTheAwesome();
    }
}

(For a fully working example, see the native-activity sample in NDK/samples/native-activity and the NativeActivity documentation.)In addition to fully native applications, the latest NDK lets you play sound from native code (via the OpenSL ES API, an open standard managed by Khronos, which also oversees OpenGL ES), handle common application events (life cycle, touch and key events, as well as sensors), control windows directly (including direct access to the window’s pixel buffer), manage EGL contexts, and read assets directly out of APK files. The latest NDK also comes with a prebuilt version of STLport, making it easier to bring STL-reliant applications to Android. Finally, r5 adds backwards-compatible support for RTTI, C++ exceptions, wchar_t, and includes improved debugging tools. Clearly, this release represents a large positive ∆awesome.
We worked hard to increase the utility of the NDK for this release because you guys, the developers who are actually out there making the awesome applications, told us you needed it. This release is specifically designed to help game developers continue to rock; with Gingerbread and the NDK r5, it should now be very easy to bring games written entirely in C and C++ to Android with minimal modification. We expect the APIs exposed by r5 to also benefit a wide range of media applications; access to a native sound buffer and the ability to write directly to window surfaces makes it much easier for applications implementing their own audio and video codecs to achieve maximum performance. In short, this release addresses many of the requests we’ve received over the last year since the first version of the NDK was announced.
We think this is pretty awesome and hope you do too.


简单说，现在用android NDK编写android 程序，不用任何一行java代码都可以了。
这样可以充分的发挥其硬件的性能

[ 本帖最后由 masterfish 于 2011-1-13 11:02 编辑 ]

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原帖由 jun4rui 于 2011-1-13 11:04 发表
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早就有了，这都是第五版了，不过还是有较大改进

这次的最大不同，就是标红的那句：你现在可以完全不用写任何一行java了。
由于底层的所有的设施，包括内存调度、opengl、电源管理、网路传输等等都是c写的，以前的版本里，你都只能在java下调用，因此效率低下，现在可以直接在c、c++的程序中调用了，进一步的优化必然可以期望。