Chapter 12
Native Graphics API
Needless to say, games and multimedia applications benefit from the Android NDK the most. These applications rely on native code for performance-critical operations. Having the capability to render graphics directly to the display from within the native layer is a highly crucial for such applications. This chapter will explore the following set of native graphics APIs that are provided through the Android NDK:
- JNI Graphics API (aka Bitmap API)
- OpenGL ES 1.x and 2.0
- Native Window API
Throughout this chapter, you will be building an AVI video player application that will be used as a test bed to demonstrate rendering of video frames through the various native graphics APIs that are available.
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