The third release of the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) is now available for download from the Android developer site.
It can be used to target devices running Android 1.5 and higher. In addition to a few bug fixes and improvements, this release includes the following new features:
Toolchain improvement
The toolchain binaries have been refreshed for this release with GCC 4.4.0, which should generate slightly more compact and efficient machine code than the previous one (4.2.1).
Note that the GCC 4.4.0 C++ frontend is more pedantic, and may refuse to compile certain rare and invalid template declarations that were accepted by 4.2.1. To alleviate the problem, this NDK still provides the 4.2.1 binaries, which can optionally be used to build your machine code.
OpenGL ES 2.0 support
Applications targeting Android 2.0 (API level 5) or higher can now directly access OpenGL ES 2.0 features. This brings the ability to control graphics rendering through vertex and fragment shader programs, using the GLSL shading language.
A new trivial sample, named "hello-gl2", demonstrates how to render a simple triangle using both shader types.
Name simplification
This NDK release is just called "r3", for "Revision 3", to indicate that it is not limited to a specific Android platform/API level. Some developers thought that the previous release's name (1.6_r1) was confusing and indicated that it could only be used to target Android 1.6, which was not true.
Enjoy!
RSS를 통해 NDK가 Release 된걸 접하면서 NDK뿐만이 아니라 SDK Tools r5, ADT 0.9.6도 같이 업뎃이 된거 같습니다.
SDK Tools r5
- If you are developing in Eclipse with ADT, note that SDK Tools r5 is designed for use with ADT 0.9.6 and later. After installing SDK Tools r5, we highly recommend updating your ADT Plugin to 0.9.6.
- For Mac OS platforms, OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) is no longer officially supported.
- Fixes SSL download for the standalone version of the SDK Updater.
- Fixes issue with 64-bit JVM on Windows.
- Adds support for platform samples components.
- Improves support for dependency between components.
- AVDs now sorted by API level.
- The AVD creation dialog now enforces a minimum SD card size of 9MB.
- Prevents deletion of running AVDs.
- Settings are now automatically saved, no need to click "Apply".
- Emulator now requires SD card to be 9MB or more.
- Fixes
layoutopt.batto execute correctly on Windows.
ADT Plugin For Eclipse 0.9.6
ADT 0.9.6 is designed for use with SDK Tools r5 and later. Before updating to ADT 0.9.6, we highly recommend that you use the Android SDK and AVD Manager to install SDK Tools r5 into your SDK.
- Editing
default.propertiesoutside of Eclipse will now automatically update the project. - Loads the SDK content only when a project requires it. This will make Eclipse use less resources when the SDK contains many versions of Android.
- Resolves potential deadlock between modal dialogs, when launching ADT the first time with the SDK Usage panel.
- Fixes issues with the New Project Wizard when selecting samples.
- Adds support for platform samples components.
- Improves support for dependency between components.
- AVDs now sorted by API level.
- The AVD creation dialog now enforces a minimum SD card size of 9MB.
- Prevents deletion of running AVDs.
- DDMS plug-in now contains the Allocation Tracker view.
- New action in the Logcat view: "Go to problem" lets you go directly from an exception trace output to the code.
- Explode mode in the Visual Layout Editor adds a margin to all layout objects so that it's easier to see embedded or empty layouts.
- Outline mode in the Visual Layout Editor draws layout outline to make it easier to see layout objects.
- Several fixes in the configuration selector of the Visual Layout Editor.
- Applications launched from ADT now behave as if they were clicked from the Home screen.
- Fixes issue where add-on with no optional library would not show up as valid targets for application launches.
- Resolves possible crash when launching applications.
드디어 NDK도 업데이트가 되었군요. ^^