OT: It's Android Jim, but not as we know it (what CPUs does Livecode compile to?)

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu Jul 21 19:27:23 EDT 2011


On 7/21/11 4:52 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:

> Applications that target the dalvik virtual machine will run accross
> different CPUs but as I understand Android has some NDK thing like a Native
> CPU Specific Development Kit where you can compile C/C++ code such as the
> LiveCode engine and call it from a dalvik based application. As I
> understand, LiveCode is probably being built natively for the ARM CPU on
> Android and maybe x86 to run on the Android Emulator (or the Android
> Emulator is emulating ARM).
>
> This is my guess, I may be wrong though....

You'd know better than me, so you're probably right. But if the machine 
can run Market apps, would that be a good test?

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