Android platform, sicne it moves portability down to the CPU layer.
At that point it becomes an HW platform instead of a SW one.
> Exactly.
> I find it kind of amusing that there are people fascinated with
> building console based C apps for a phone platform, talk about a waste
> of time! :-)
> You have a whole new application platform with all the right
> abstractions, a nice looking UI toolkit and access to 3D apps via
> OpenGL and you're going to play with building a command line console
> app? LOL!
> On Nov 14, 1:50 pm, gaz <billy00the00...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > You know guys that doing this will prevent your application in being
> > an Android application, yes?
> > If you tie up your app to a certain CPU, it mean that XYZ manufacturer
> > producing an Android device with a MIPS CPU (or whatever other CPU)
> > will not be able to run your app.
> > If you want to be really Android (and not Android/ARM) compatible, you
> > better stick with Java and let the JIT to do its own job.
> > On Nov 14, 10:40 am, "Aaron P. D'Souza" <adso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > ANDROID OS TIPS
> > > * to start emulator
> > > ./emulator -console
> > > * to xfer a file to emulator; this is stored in emulator's
> > > userdata.img file
> > > adb push <file> <dst file>
> > > * to copy a file or a directory recursively to emulator
> > > adb push <source> <destination>
> > > * to copy a file or a directory recursively from emulator
> > > adb pull <source> <destination>
> > > * emulator can run native ARM Linux code.
> > > build your apps using GNU/ARM Linux toolchain and then run in
> > > emulator.
> > > * to get a shell on the emulator
> > > adb shell
> > > * to run a console app on Android emulator
> > > adb shell <Linux command>
> > > * to connect to emulator console for specific commands
> > > telnet localhost 5554/6/8
> > > BUILDING AND RUNNING A NATIVE C APP ON ANDROID EMULATOR
> > > References
> > > Native C "Hello World" working in emulatorhttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa...
> > > Native C Applications for Androidhttp://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/13/android-native-apps
> > > Steps
> > > * download and install GNU/ARM Linux tool chain
> > > http://www.codesourcery.com/gnu_toolchains/arm/download.html
> > > * create C/C++ code. see below for sample code.
> > > * build app without dynamic libraries using GNU/ARM Linux toolchain
> > > ex. arm-none-linux-gnueabi-g++.exe -static -o hello HelloAndroid.cpp
> > > * start emulator in Windows by double clicking on $SDK_ROOT/tools/
> > > emulator.exe
> > > * in a Windows Command window, use "adb" to xfer executable to
> > > emulator disk
> > > adb push hello /system/sbin/hello
> > > * make your app executable; do not use chmod ugo+x
> > > adb shell chmod 777 /system/sbin/hello
> > > * run your app in a console on the emulator
> > > adb shell
> > > cd /system/sbin/
> > > hello
> > > EXAMPLE HELLO WORLD CODE
> > > //
> > > // HelloAndroid.cpp
> > > //
> > > //
> > > #include <iostream>
> > > using std::cin;
> > > using std::cout;
> > > using std::endl;
> > > class MyName
> > > {
> > > public:
> > > void getname( void );
> > > void sayhello( void );
> > > private:
> > > char name[ 255 ];
> > > };
> > > void MyName::getname( void )
> > > {
> > > cout << "What is your name? ";
> > > cin >> name;
> > > }
> > > void MyName::sayhello( void )
> > > {
> > > cout << "Welcome " << name << " to the world of Android" << endl;
> > > }
> > > MyName name;
> > > int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
> > > {
> > > name.getname();
> > > name.sayhello();
> > > return 0;
> > > }
