Distribution applications with native code

[mboehmer]

Hello,

I really appreciate the NDK and the possibility for writing
applications with native code. But one question arises: is it possible
to distribute applications using own native code via the android
market?

Best regards,
mboehmer

[David Turner]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:40 PM, mboehmer <matbo...@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I really appreciate the NDK and the possibility for writing
applications with native code. But one question arises: is it possible
to distribute applications using own native code via the android
market?

If you're talking about native-only applications, certainly not, and it's unlikely to ever be supported :-)

 

Best regards,
mboehmer

[Jack Palevich]

On the other hand, if you're talking about applications written in a
mixture of Java and native code, using the SDK and the NDK, then yes,
of course, these applications can be distributed via Market.

[RzR www.rzr.online.fr]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Jack Palevich<jac...@google.com> wrote:
>
> On the other hand, if you're talking about applications written in a
> mixture of Java and native code, using the SDK and the NDK, then yes,
> of course, these applications can be distributed via Market.

are there any so far ? if not who'll try to submit that mandelbrot
demo to check the policy

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[pin xue]

Have a look at iCosta, it is in Tools catalog but you'd better search in Market app.

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[Dianne Hackborn]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 3:08 PM, RzR www.rzr.online.fr <www.rzr.online.fr@gmail.com> wrote:

are there any so far ? if not who'll try to submit that mandelbrot
demo to check the policy

You don't need to check the policy.  Previously we didn't have an official NDK, so we didn't support apps using native code.  Now we do, and these are supported.  What would be the point of doing an official NDK if such apps weren't officially fully supported?!?

(And btw, the policy is generally that we will not -support- applications that aren't using official APIs.  In other words, you are most likely to run into trouble when there is a platform update and whatever unsupported thing your app is doing suddenly breaks on it.  When we are testing compatibility, find a broken app, and see that it is using anything unsupported, it is immediately ignored.  Heck some engineer may just decide to change a private API simply to break apps, who knows.)

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