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by candiodari 3081 days ago
Java APIs ARE C APIs, for obvious reasons. There doesn't have to be any difference in security.

It is quite normal and traditional though, for C/C++ developers to work with what they call statically built binaries. They're a bit bigger (may God provide mercy, and huge amounts of free diskspace to those fools that enable debug), but the odds of them working flawless on a given device are much higher.

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> Java APIs ARE C APIs,

You lost me there. I wouldn't call JNI boilerplate a C API.

> It is quite normal and traditional though, for C/C++ developers to work with what they call statically built binaries.

Polyglot dev here, including C and C++.

The way a library is linked is orthogonal to be made available on the SDK.