cnlohr/rawdrawandroid
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Build android apps without any java, entirely in C and Make
12 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 3 stories, 9 comments · first 2020-05-09 · latest 2026-09-25
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1569888000 | Build android apps without any java, entirely in C and Make | https://github.com/cnlohr/rawdrawandroid 1752624000 | Compiling C/C++ code with ndk-build | https://nyxfault.github.io/posts/Android-NDK/ 1785024000 | Lightweight,…
comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2026-09-25 · in F-Droid 2.0 -
https://github.com/cnlohr/rawdrawandroid 25Kb
comment by rabf · 2026-01-06 · in Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? -
This is what you could use: https://github.com/cnlohr/rawdrawandroid
comment by RicoElectrico · 2025-12-01 · in Ask HN: How to create APK file on pure C, without Java? -
…library that is then called into by java code. But one can make whole app with it, 100% java-free: https://github.com/cnlohr/rawdrawandroid
comment by kees99 · 2025-10-09 · in ESP32 and Termux -
> Sounds like a headache. It is! ( https://github.com/cnlohr/rawdrawandroid ) - and that's just writing a simple an android app in C. If you want to access the numerous APIs to do anything useful, it's more pain.
comment by exe34 · 2025-04-27 · in Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979) -
…this project. 0 java files. Bravo. Also worth looking at the rawandroid project like others noted: https://github.com/cnlohr/rawdrawandroid/tree/master
comment by psanchez · 2024-09-22 · in Flappy Bird for Android, only C, under 100KB -
…android apps with no java, only c. There is no good reason to do it, but it is apparently possible. https://github.com/cnlohr/rawdrawandroid
comment by extraduder_ire · 2024-08-24 · in Adding 16 kb page size to Android -
…kinds of efforts because they embody the true hacker spirit. This is Hacker News after all! 0: https://github.com/cnlohr/rawdrawandroid?tab=readme-ov-file#...
comment by cnity · 2024-04-19 · in C-Macs – a pure C macOS application -
App written c 25kb on API 26 https://github.com/cnlohr/rawdrawandroid
comment by themrredbeard · 2023-12-28 · in Little File Explorer – File Manager for Android 1.0 and above