What is the main differance between .so file and .jar android

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What is the main difference between .so file and .jar file in android? Is it possible to change using of .so with using of .jar file?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9809213/what-are-a-and-so-files http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12079230/what-exactly-does-a-jar-file-contain — sUndeep, Feb 06 '15 at 08:28

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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.so are Shared Objects are linked during the runtime. If there are any changes in your .so you dont need to recompile. source

.jar are Java Arhive files -fundamental archive files, built on the ZIP file format. They can contain anything:classes,images,text Wikipedia

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

Community

answered Feb 06 '15 at 08:45

Maky

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 06 '15 at 08:38

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.so files are typically C or C++ libraries, while .jar files are a zip-format archive used for Java.

Also, could you explain the second part more? What do you want to do?

answered Feb 06 '15 at 08:38

juunas

i need to import so file in my xamarin project. honestly I try to use C4000 china device's barcode reader in xamarin. In documentation second step is : Put libDeviceAPI.so file to the directory \libs\armeabi\. (operation system is android, demo code is written in android studio) – Nininea Feb 06 '15 at 09:13

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