[LAD] Android Java stack

[Jens M Andreasen]

(USB) MIDI appears to be missing - or am I looking in the wrong places?
I would have wanted one of those underpowered tablets that people are
dumping left and right as a midi-sysex controller

/j

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On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 11:53 +0200, Olivier Guilyardi wrote:
> On 06/30/2011 09:26 AM, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
> > On a related subject ... What is the Java implementation like on
> > Android? Is it the "normal" Java as we have it in Linux/OSX/etc or is it
> > one of those Mobile variants, having its own set of API's?
> 
> On Android, it's pretty standard. You can rely on most Java SE library
> primitives. Check this post, it's a bit old, but still informative:
> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/java-vs-android-apis/504
> 
> For all official packages included in the Android SDK, check this:
> http://developer.android.com/reference/packages.html
> 
> When building with the SDK, the standard javac from Oracle JDK is used, and then
> the classes are compiled to dex format, before then can be run on the Dalvik VM.
> But this is transparent for the developer.
> 
> --
>   Olivier