Endianness of Android NDK

Question

I\'m working with my new app which processed captured image from cellphone camera. My phone is Nexus S, 2.3.4.

I create a ARGB_8888 Bitmap with captured data. I know

Answer 1

Yes most cpus bi-endian, but most end user operating systems in use today choose to use the cpus in little-endian. Along those lines, ARM can operate in both as a convenience, its actual default after ARM 3 is little-endianess which is the endian mode it starts up in. I think one can safely assume that all Android devices are little endian, otherwise it would be extra work if different android devices were a mixture of endianess.

Because network byte order is big-endian, it can be helpful to convert any format you plan on using for data interchange to network byte order. Again, though, Mac OS X on Intel, Windows, iOS and Android are little-endian, so you might just code up structures with the native endianness and hope the next great OS you want to port data to doesn't go big-endian.