Re: Setting up an Android development team for CS

> Only a very small wrapper to fire up the CS engine would be needed.
> The rest
> of the code can be fully in C++.

This is true, but at mozilla, we are just finishing up a project that 
is using native Java for some of this. Specifically, our Off-Main 
Thread Compositor uses Java, because of efficiency issues with C++. We 
found that it's a major performance win to put UI stuff into Java 
native, along with final compositing, as it can be done off the main 
thread.

I'd recommend something similar for CS, since it could be a performance 
loss that we don't even realize until we hit it. The good news is that 
we can use the same core code for tablets and Android phones, so that's 
pretty exciting! BTW - I've been working for the last ~6 months on 
Firefox for android, which is almost entirely C++ (except for the 
pieces I already mentioned), and I'd be more than happy to help with 
this same project in CS.

(I've actually been secretly waiting for someone to bring it up, so I'm 
pretty excited about this, too!)

~Scott

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