Category Archives: Android

NEON optimizations for iOS and Android

Posted on December 5, 2011 by steve

I spent some time over the last few weeks optimizing some of our low-level DSP functions using ARM NEON instructions, and thought I’d share my experience here, as there were a few surprises. First, some background on NEON.  Many of … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of a cross-platform iOS/Android app

Posted on June 15, 2011 by steve

There hasn’t been a lot of news posted lately, which is just because we’ve been busy making some big changes to the Cricket Audio code; we’ll post more about that when we’re ready, we promise! In the meantime, though, I … Continue reading →

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Native audio programming on Android without OpenSL ES, part 2

Posted on April 11, 2011 by steve

In my last post I described how we use JNI and the Java AudioTrack class to output audio from native code on Android versions prior to 2.3 (that is, before the release of OpenSL ES).  But actually, that’s only half … Continue reading →

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Native audio programming in Android without OpenSL ES

Posted on April 5, 2011 by steve

Android 2.3 introduced OpenSL ES to the NDK, which is certainly a welcome addition for those of us interested in writing native audio code. Unfortunately, since few if any mobile carriers have yet released the update on their networks, only … Continue reading →

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C++ development on iOS and Android

Posted on March 10, 2011 by steve

The basic interface for the Cricket engine is C++, as is most of the implementation.  Objective-C is the primary development language on iOS, and Java is the preferred language on Android, but both platforms support C++ also; C++ code can … Continue reading →

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