3. Android NDK The Android NDK is a companion tool to the Android SDK that lets you build performance-critical portions of your apps in native code. It provides headers and libraries that allow you to build activities, handle user input, use hardware sensors, access application resources, and more, when programming in C or C++
4. What’s in Android NDK Tools to build and compile your native code for the device architecture (such as ARM) A way to package to package your library into the APK file so you can distribute your application easily A set of native system headers that will be supported for future releases of Android platform(libc, libm, libz, liblog, JNI headers, some C++ headers, OpenGL) Documentation, sample code and examples
16. C# You must have Visual Studio and JDK installed Download and install Mono for Android (http://android.xamarin.com/DownloadTrial) Create AVD in Eclipse Run your apps , creating for Android using C# , from Visual Studio.
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19. Android PhoneGap Features If the phone can do it, PhoneGap apps can do it: Sensors: accelerometer, vibrate, compass GPS! Network availability, offline storage Media File I/O Complete list at http://wiki.phonegap.com/Roadmap
20. Other programming languages
21. Python – Scripting Layer for Android (http://www.code.google.com/p/android-scripting) Scala– (http://code.google.com/p/scala-android/) Clojure – (https://github.com/remvee/clj-android/) Hecl– (http://hecl.org/docs/android.html) Ruby a) Ruboto – (http://ruboto.org/) b) Rhodes 2.0 - (http://rhomobile.com/products/rhodes/)