Chapter 4
Auto-Generate JNI Code Using SWIG
In the previous chapter you explored JNI technology and you learned how to connect native code to a Java application. As noted, implementing JNI wrapper code and handling the translation of data types is a cumbersome and time-consuming development task. This chapter will introduce the Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG), a development tool that can simplify this process by automatically generating the necessary JNI wrapper code.
SWIG is not an Android- and Java-only tool. It is a highly extensive tool that can generate code in many other programming languages. As SWIG is rather large, this chapter will only cover the following key SWIG concepts and APIs that will get you started: ...
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