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The couple of short code fragments in this article suggest that the cross-platform code in this app is in C++. Can anyone inside Dropbox say whether this is correct? And if so, were you able to use any tools to make the JNI glue code less tedious to write for the Android version?

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The short answer is yes, we use a fair amount of C++, and yes, we've eliminated writing the JNI code for developers on the team. We're planning on writing more about both of these topics in a future blog post and we're interested in sharing our tools with the community, though it will take some work to make them less specific to our code base.

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