can we use flex and c++ on android?

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I have created an AIR app on windows which uses flex as front end, and c++ native binaries at back end. The two are loosely coupled, and communicate with the help of flex NativeProcessEvents.

As a next step I want to port the same app over android. I do not have any prior experience of Android development, but I understand that Flex 4.5 has a good support for Android. But from whatever I read so far, the C/C++ support for Android is limited. Android NDK seems to be a way to communicate b/w native Android Apps and c++ code, but I am not clear whether it also allows to compile "legacy c++" code to "c++ only" binaries. Is it possible?

Any links/examples on this would greatly help.

Regards, Kapil

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androidc++apache-flexandroid-ndkflex4.5
android.yongbok.net/repository/platform/ndk/docs/…. Using GNU libstdc++ static library, you will get all C++ features. - istepura

2 Answers

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You have a few options.

  1. The first is to re-write your C++ code to some server based language. Visual C++ and .NEt seems like a likely candidate beacuse you should be able to reuse much of your C++ code in the port.

  2. You may want to investigate Native Extension feature that was announced for AIR 3.0. I believe you should be able to port your C++ code over to a Native Extension to expose that to the AIR app running on Android. I'm unclear if you'll have to rewrite the C++ code in Java.

    AIR 3 is in release candidate stage as a few days ago, so I Expect a formal release is right around the corner.

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Android's NDK is totally capable of running arbitrary C and C++ code. The real question would be the interface between AIR and C++ - unfortunately I don't have any experience with Flex on Android.