<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Shivaprasad Imdapur <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shiv.imdapur@gmail.com" target="_blank">shiv.imdapur@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#3333ff">Hi All,</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font color="#3333ff"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#3333ff"> I got some library file to support Biometric sensor device for android. The library is libfpc4030.a</font></div>
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<font color="#3333ff"> My Doubts are,</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#3333ff"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font color="#3333ff">1. What is *.a" file?</font></div></blockquote><div>A bit of googling would reveal that *.a are static library files on any unix system.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font color="#3333ff">2. Is libfpc4030.a is an driver support library ?. If so where exactly keep this in android source code and compile?</font></div></blockquote><div>A better place to ask this question would be android mailing list. <br>
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<font color="#3333ff"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#3333ff">2. These library file will communicate directly to hardware or we need to write any driver support code ?</font></div>
</blockquote><div>AFAIK, the libraries make system call to kernel which in turn interacts with hardware using device drivers.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font color="#3333ff"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#3333ff">Thanks</font></div><div><font color="#3333ff"><br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Thank you <br>Warm Regards<br>Anuz<br>