[NTLK] Einstein on Android - doing away with ARM emulation?

[William Ross]

While the preferred way to do development on Andoird is via the VM, there is an NDK (Native Development Kit) that allows compiled C++ to run.
-Will

On Mar 13, 2011, at 6:05 AM, Joseph Reilly wrote:
> My understanding of how android works is that all apps run through a virtual machine 
> which keeps everything sandboxed pretty well and away from direct contact with the
> core os/hardware. I'd guess if this was to be tried you'd have to have a rooted device  
> (if you don't already). Another issue my be the various arm chips in the many android 
> devices, they may not all support the same features so you might have to tune for 
> each chip... but I'm just guessing until a knowledgable person chimes in :-) I don't know a 
> lot about the inner workings of android or newton so I may be way off base 
> (and making myself look like a fool) :-/
> 
> Joe Reilly