[Info-vax] Android development Was Re: OT: Larry Ellison takes retirement as CEO of Oracle

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-09-20 16:48, Paul Sture wrote:
> On 2014-09-19, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> On 2014-09-19, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
>>> On 2014-09-19, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Given the current situation with Java, I'm seriously tempted to just
>>>> bypass the Android Java variant and just write native mode code.
>>>>
>>>> That has the _major_ advantage that non-architecture specific code
>>>> can be abstracted out into it's own library and easily reused on
>>>> something like a normal Linux box.
>>>
>>> iOS too.  Earlier today I came across someone using C++ for iOS, got
>>> curious, and came up with this link about using C++ for both Android and
>>> iOS:
>>>
>>> <http://www.crickettechnology.com/blog/?p=71>
>>>
>>
>> Interesting.
>>
>> I haven't really done anything with Android programming yet, but
>> the material at that URL reflects what I appear to have discovered
>> so far.
>
> Unfortunately, you'll probably need to mug up on the different ways
> malware can infest Android devices and potentially interfere with your
> own apps.
>
> And to keep this on topic for c.o.v. VSI will have to acquaint
> themselves with the topic of malware which runs on x64 systems.

???
Not really. Unless it's built for VMS, it will not run (unless VMS 
suddenly starts being able to run Unix binaries, which I seriously doubt 
will happen).

	Johnny

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