Android Studio 3.1 Released With C++ Performance Profiler

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Android Studio 3.1 Released With C++ Performance Profiler

A half-year after Android Studio 3.0, the Android Studio 3.1 integrated development environment for Android app developers is now available...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Android-Studio-3.1-Released

[bpetty]

I tried doing raw camera frame processing once and it was very difficult, as every manufacturer shipped their own camera library. Its easy to do in "Java" but data marshaling kills your performance. I would be interested in hearing the experience people have had with C++ on Android, and why they chose that route. I tried it a few years ago and it was a very very painful experience (like most things mobile; these APIs and made up concepts like Activities are horrible).

[coder]

I tried doing raw camera frame processing once and it was very difficult, as every manufacturer shipped their own camera library. Its easy to do in "Java"

Likewise, I needed to perform video compression from C++ and there didn't seem to be a standard API I could use that would support all hardware >= the API rev. I'm no NDK expert, so perhaps I missed something, but I think that API rev just didn't have it.

In my case, I needed to use C++ libraries for point cloud processing and computer vision.

I imagine Google might be seeing more/sustained interest in C++ driven by VR and AR developers.

[Vinni]

New Android Studio 3.1 features make editing inline SQL/Room Database code in the Android project much easier. This release has SQL code completion in @Query declarations, SQL code navigation across projects and better SQL statement refactoring.

http://www.techgrin.com/android-studio-3-1-features-kotlin-lint-checks/