


Debugging to the emulator is as simple as selecting one of our device profiles from the debug target dropdown and hitting the play button. As yet there's no prebuilt binary for Visual Studio 2015, although Webb states that this will be forthcoming. The Visual Studio Emulator for Android is included when you install Visual Studio to develop for Android, iOS, and Windows all from one code base using familiar languages such as C, JavaScript, and C++. For those environments, Webb advises using Xamarin or Mono. One major and deliberate omission from the project is support for C# or. Visual Studio is a suite of component-based software development tools and other technologies for building powerful, high-performance applications. "This project was designed to help real-world C/C++ projects," he writes, "so there are various optimizations and unique approaches that are still of value (and worth sharing)." Xamarin is a tool that allows developers to build apps using Visual Studio that can easily be ported to both iOS and Android, perfect for cross platform projects. Webb claims Android++ offers superior build performance compared to Visual Studio 2015. Android++ also lets developers opt for either the LLVM/Clang or GCC compiler, and it integrates with the GDB debugger. Most applications do not benefit from being written in C/CC++ on Android, but the ones that do are usually either games or simulations, as Webb states, or applications that involve "signal processing" or "physics simulation," per Google on the Android NDK page.Īndroid++ distinguishes itself from similar projects by using MSBuild (also open source) rather than the Gradle build script system commonly used by Android developers.
