Unsafe class in Android?

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Do the Android Dalvik standard libraries have any class similar to the undocumented class sun.misc.Unsafe in Java SE which allows direct access to memory.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '11 at 23:13

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Android implements parts of sun.misc.Unsafe, primarily to support the JSR-166 concurrency classes. It's not part of the Android API.

answered Mar 18 '11 at 23:13

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You can call unsafe APIs via reflection, and use the 'catch' clause to fall back in case unsafe is not available. – Jesse Wilson Mar 19 '11 at 04:18

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 18 '11 at 20:23

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It has the JNI bridge which could allow for just about anything but it's not "unsafe" since you have to code that into your app. As far as I know there is no exposed way to get out of the JVM sandbox (at least not without finding an exploit).

answered Mar 18 '11 at 20:23

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