Android Native Development Kit Cookbook

Chapter 6. Android NDK Multithreading

In this chapter we will cover:

• Creating and terminating native threads at Android NDK
• Synchronizing native threads with mutex at Android NDK
• Synchronizing native threads with conditional variables at Android NDK
• Synchronizing native threads with reader/writer locks at Android NDK
• Synchronizing native threads with semaphore at Android NDK
• Scheduling native threads at Android NDK
• Managing data for native threads at Android NDK

Introduction

Most non-trivial Android apps use more than one thread, therefore multithreaded programming is essential to Android development. At Android NDK, POSIX Threads (pthreads) is bundled in Android's Bionic C library to support multithreading. This chapter mainly discusses the API functions ...