Question

I am new to NDK and I am writing a game using a 3D Engine -Ogre. I have something like this in the manifest pointing to my native lib:

 <activity
        android:name="android.app.NativeActivity"
         android:screenOrientation="landscape"
          android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen">
         <!-- Tell NativeActivity the name of or .so -->
        <meta-data android:name="android.app.lib_name" android:value="OgreAndroidTemplate" />

Then I start this activity by calling this from another java Activity:

Intent engineIntent = new Intent( _context, NativeActivity.class);
            startActivity(engineIntent);

However, I want some UI handling on top of my game (etc. menu buttons or advertisements ) , and want this to be handled at java side. Is there any way I can add another view or activity for this on top of my game?

Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Not sure about the NDK, but if you were using normal Android XML layouts you could have a FrameLayout

<FrameLayout>
   <YourNdkView/>
   <LinearLayout>
      <!-- buttons etc -->
   </LinearLayout>
</FrameLayout>