Dec 04
Using SWIG SWIG – Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator: When writing native code in our Android project, we need to set up the “glue” code between java and C++, this “glue” code is the JNI code. I wrote This JNI Article about JNI in Android, the problem with writing JNI code is …
Dec 04
Disabling Gradle auto build in Android Studio and set to use Make Files Theoretical background: To build using a custom Android MakeFile: If you would like to use a custom android MakeFile instead of using the default compilation of Gradle, we will have to: 1. Create a custom Android.mk file …
Dec 04
Creating the android and application make files Theoretical background: Application.mk: The Application.mk is a Make File that defines general variables about how to compile your applications. For example: Which ABIs the application will build for, which toolchain and which compiler to use, what is the min android version to build to …
Dec 04
Building the Android project using Gradle To build using Gradle: If you want to use the android NDK to build C++ code, all you have to do is: 1. In the build.gradle file add under android->defaultConfig the following element: ndk { moduleName "<your_module_name>" //You can declare here other …
Dec 04
Building the Android project using Gradle or MakeFiles Theoretical Background: The android build system uses Gradle, and it consists of an android plugin for Gradle. When we create a project a build.gradle (Module: app) file is created (under the folder app) and auto generated with the plugin: apply plugin: ‘com.android.application’ This plugin …
Sep 27
Setting Up The Test Windows Project Example diagram: Theoretical Background: In the previous articles we learned about gmock and gtest frameworks and set up the windows gmock and gtest projects. In this article we will set up the Windows test project, This project will take dependency on: The gmock project (which …
Sep 27
Setting up the gmock Windows project Example diagram: Theoretical Background: gmock is a framework that provides an API for easily setting up mock classes, to be used by your tests. It is also developed by Google and is intended to complete the testing capabilities of gtest. (Although you can use gmock …
Sep 27
Gmock – Google Mock – Cross platform mock framework Theoretical Background: Gmock is a cross platform framework for writing mocks for tests in c++ It supports Android, Windows, Mac, IOS and more. Gmock is not a standalone testing framework, it is used only for setting mock functionality. It complements the gtest framework …
Aug 29
:Setting up the gtest Windows project Theoretical Background: Gtest is a cross platform framework for writing tests in c++ It supports Android, Windows, Mac, IOS and more. gtest main page: https://code.google.com/p/googletest/ Google Test Runner: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/9dd47c21-97a6-4369-b326-c562678066f0 Is a Visual Studio extension that allows to run gtest from the VS built in …
Aug 29
:Setting up the gtest Windows project Example diagram: Theoretical Background: In this article we will set up a windows project for gtest. This project will be a static library that compiles the gtest code. After creating this project we will be able to create our own test project that will …
