Android native development kit updated
Developers of the Google-backed Android mobile application platform have released revision 3 of Android NDK (Native Development Kit), which complements Android SDK by enabling developers to build performance-critical portions of an application in native code.
Release of NDK r3 was noted in a posting on the Android Developer Blog on Monday. Version 3 includes OpenGL ES (Open Graphics Library for Embedded Systems) 2.0 native library support. Also featured is a sample application making use of OpenGL ES 2.0 vertex and fragment shaders.
"[OpenGL ES 2.0] brings the ability to control graphics rendering through vertex and fragment shader programs using the GLSL shading language," said David Turner, a member of the Google technical staff, in the Android Developer Blog.L33tdawg: If you're interested in the inner workings of Android apps, Marc Schoenefeld will be presenting a new paper on reverse engineering Android applications with an exclusive release of undx2, the next major version of the undx transformation library allowing a reverse transformation to Java bytecode.
