In our object-oriented world the class is a minimal unit, a brick for constructing our applications. It is an abstraction and we know well how to use it. In well-designed software we are not usually interested in knowing how objects look in memory. …
Update (December 2011): Since this article was published, the things have changed for good for Android native developers. The Sequoyah Project (http://www.eclipse.org/sequoyah/) automates most of the tasks discussed in this article. You can even fin…