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DS-5 binaries file

John Teoh

Dear all,

I'm curious whether the DS-5 generated binaries file can be execute in Android platform?

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  • 0 Arm Employee Badge in reply to John Linq

    Typical Android applications are written in Java, compiled to Java bytecode and translated to Dalvik code. But the Java/Dalvik code can also call native methods (that is ARM/Thumb code) in shared libraries -- this is what the Android NDK allows you to build.

    DS-5 will be able to debug this native code (alongside the Android SDK/NDK) -- but the support is not in the public trial yet.

    That said, Android can also run normal native applications. The biggest difference between a native ARM Linux application and a native Android application is that Android uses the bionic C library instead of glibc.

    The Android kernel is different than the mainline ARM Linux kernel, but it's largely a superset.

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  • 0 Arm Employee Badge in reply to John Linq

    Typical Android applications are written in Java, compiled to Java bytecode and translated to Dalvik code. But the Java/Dalvik code can also call native methods (that is ARM/Thumb code) in shared libraries -- this is what the Android NDK allows you to build.

    DS-5 will be able to debug this native code (alongside the Android SDK/NDK) -- but the support is not in the public trial yet.

    That said, Android can also run normal native applications. The biggest difference between a native ARM Linux application and a native Android application is that Android uses the bionic C library instead of glibc.

    The Android kernel is different than the mainline ARM Linux kernel, but it's largely a superset.

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