.a library support for android

[Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Shivaprasad Imdapur <
shiv.imdapur at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>   I got some library file to support Biometric sensor device for android.
> The library is libfpc4030.a
>
>  My Doubts are,
>
> 1. What is *.a" file?
>
A bit of googling would reveal that *.a are static library files on any
unix system.


>
> 2. Is libfpc4030.a is an driver support library ?. If so where exactly
> keep this in android source code and compile?
>
A better place to ask this question would be android mailing list.

>
> 2. These library file  will communicate directly to hardware or we need to
> write any driver support code ?
>
AFAIK, the libraries make system call to kernel which in turn interacts
with hardware using device drivers.


>
>
> Thanks
>
>
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Thank you
Warm Regards
Anuz
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