Considering that ARM's chip architecture is found in the vast majority of smartphones today, a new Android development kit issued by the Brits can only be welcome news.
The DS-5 Community Edition kit promises up to 4 times faster application performance than Java code, and differs from Google's own SDK and NDK in that it is optimized for energy efficiency.
Today, ARM announced their new Android development toolkit, Development Studio 5 (DS-5) Community Edition (CE). The free software will let Android developers create applications that can run up to four times faster than Java code on Android. What makes it unique compared to the SDK and NDK development tools is that DS-5 CE will help developers to be more energy efficient in terms of performance.
DS-5 Community Edition’s purpose is to make life easier for Android application developers. The toolkit allows one to see processor information, as well as allowing the development of Java and C/C++ code. It also includes an integrated graphical debugger.
The toolkit features the ARM Streamline Performance Analyzer, which captures information on system performance and makes it easier for developers to see problems in their code and make it more efficient. Support for Streamline can be added with an open source driver from Linaro.
The goal is to help developers create amazing user experiences with their applications. John Carnish, ARM’s executive vice president and general manager, system design division says “ARM DS-5 Community Edition offers developers an easy to use environment for debugging and optimizing C/C++ code. This allows them to take full advantage of ARM processor technology using native code to deliver the performance and functionality that consumers demand.”
More information is available at the DS-5 CE website.
Link for the lazy :
http://www.arm.com/products/tools/software-tools/ds-5/community-edition/index.php
Looks good!
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so who r workin on this?
I do not believe that people find out this program to optimize the use of the processors arm this post does not have many visits…
somebody uses east program, improves the duration of the battery….
it will try, I hope that it is not very difficult my knowledge are not very ample
Thank you
it will be helpful.
But I have one question
What is the output of DS-5?
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Im a c# desktop developer and would like to start messing with mobile application development but i find that .net compact is a bit limited and slow.
What other freeware/open source tools are there ?
I recently found XFlib - it's intended mainly for games and it's still on an early stage of development, but looks really interesting and might probably be used for other kinds of software as well. For compiling it depends on ceGCC - an opensource compiler for ARM CPUs, and for development you can use pretty much any text editor/IDE:
http://www.xflib.net/
you could try this
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Has anyone used Xamarin to build their android apps? I have been programming using C# for sometime now but have never used it to build anything for android.
They have tons of free libraries, but as for licensing, I am skeptical in purchasing. Anyone like or dislike Xamarin? If you do or do not, can you explain why? Thanks a bundle!
Haven't used it but you have to think whether it's worth the price. The advantage is you can write in C# and share code between Android/iOS. However the UI is still platform-specific, so it has to be implemented twice. A free alternative is to use C++ for shared code (Android: via NDK, iOS: compiles directly), but that definitely needs more initial setup effort than buying Xamarin's product.
Here is an informed opinion
There is a gaming studio that used Xamarin to port their WP stuff to Android and iOS, and they're quite happy with how it turned out.
Do a search for "FourBros Studios, Cross-Platform Game Development with Xamarin and MonoGame". I can't post a direct link because of forum rules here.
Of course games are entirely different beasts than regular apps (for example, UI-wise), so not everything may apply to your situation.
I've plaid with Xamarin... and its a good system.. but Is it worth $300 to not learn java?
Cross platform development tools have their place, but IMHO unless you have a large project and NEED a cross platform development tool you are hurting yourself by not going native.
Just my .000002c
Java is so similar to C# I would think you'd be fine just going native - in terms of syntax they're virtually identical. I do kind of miss the var keyword though lol
I agree with LostByte - there's no real point to going cross platform unless you really need it. Don't stay with C# just because it's what you know! Use what's most appropriate for the app
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Doesn't Unity cost a chunk of change to buy licenses? Thats what turned me away. I can see the appeal for a bigger 3D game, but for a platform/2d game what does Unity have over Andengine or LibGDX ?
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Thanks, will check it out.
Is this just marketing spam?...
The user's profile says they're from the U.S., but then the post says things like:
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Also, Titanium is pretty terrible. If you're actually planning to develop real apps one day, then you're just wasting your time with Titanium, since you'll never be able to develop a high quality app with it.
I'm a senior engineer on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft. I'm not a marketing guy or recruiter.
I’m looking to talk to Android native app developers like yourself to understand experiences and pain points. That would help us figure out potential tools/features we could build to make your life easier. Would you be willing to spend 30 minutes on the phone with me?
Since I build development tools for building Android and iOS apps, I'll be also looking forward to answering questions you may have.
Help shape the future of Android dev tooling! PM me if you're up for chatting and I'll setup a call.
Thanks very much,
Bret
Can't help with a phone call, but the number one pain point in Android development is the build tool chain. Working together with Gradle Inc. and the Android folks to improve this would go a long way to eleviate the pain. The worst part atm are build times and the lack of proper incremental tooling.
Another pain point is Java 8 compatibility. There's retrolambda giving us lambdas (and limited default methods), but all the Java 8 APIs are missing. I understand if MS doesn't want to touch that topic though
You already did quite a nice job on emulator performance with your custom emu in Visual Studio
I also can't help with a phone call. If you want info/ideas, do it online in this or other forums.
I use Android NDK low level C code a lot.
NDK integration with Android Studio still sucks.
If you have something like NDK/NativeDevKit integrate it well.