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Chapter 18. The Android Native Development Kit (NDK) > Native Activities
18.5. Native Activities
Android 2.3 (API level 9) and Android NDK revision 5 let you write entire activities and applications as native source by using the NativeActivity class to access the Android application life cycle.
To utilize this method, the android.app.NativeActivity needs to be referenced in the Android manifest file. Note that the application reference has a hasCode attribute. This attribute should be set to false if there is no Java in the application (only the NativeActivity). In this case, however, since we do have Java code, we set the value to true:
