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Note: This post will be a bit different from the previous ones. It’s intended to provide brief history as to why current NativeScript for Android implementation is designed this way. So, this post will be most useful for my Telerik ex-colleagues. Think of it as kind of historic documentation. Also, it is a chance to …
Continue reading “Memory management in NativeScript for Android”
In the last post I wrote that I work on a project that involves a lot of interoperability between Java and V8 JavaScript engine. Here is an interesting problem I was investigating the last couple of days. Both V8 and JVM use garbage collector for memory management. While using GC provides a lot of benefits …
The project I currently work on involves a lot of Java/JavaScript (V8 JavaScript engine) interoperability. Fortunately, Java provides JNI and V8 has a nice C++ API which make the integration process very smooth. Most of the Java-JNI-V8 type marshaling is quite straightforward but there is one exception. The JNI uses modified UTF-8 strings to represent …