Further Reading

Other Djinni Forks

There is a number of other forks of the original dropbox/djinni out there. Make sure to check them out:

• Snapchat/djinni:
  • about 5-10x faster string passing between Java and C++ (depending on string size)
  • Javascript support via WASM
  • array<>, outcome<> & Protobuf type support
  • And a lot more! (Read more...)
• hiennguyenle/finn (Not maintained anymore):
  • Support for @deprecated directive in the Djinni IDL
  • Extending records to inherit properties from a base record
  • A Json Datatype
  • JSON serialization and deserialization for Djinni records. (Has been adopted by cross-language-cpp)
  • Swift language generator
• iit-reacts/djinni (Last commit ~2019):
  • .NET support via C++/CLI (Has been adopted by cross-language-cpp)

Some features from the forks have already been migrated into this project, and we plan to continue to do so. Contributions with cool new features are always welcome!!!

Videos / Articles

A curated list of articles and videos about Djinni:

• Djinni in a bottle - Easily share code between iOS and Android using C++ by Stephan Jaetzold (2016)
  
• CppCon 2017: Stephen Spann “Cross-Platform Apps with Dropbox’s Djinni...”
  
• Cross-platform code sharing with C++ and Djinni [mobile.cologne @ grandcentrix] (Deutsch)
  

Integration Tools

While this documentation aims to provide all the information you need to get started with Djinni, there is still a long way to really using it in a real world development setup.

The following projects are trying to make the integration of Djinni into the software development process easier:

• Ezored: A C++ multi-platform toolkit template that builds upon Djinni. It targets the platforms Linux, macOS, Windows, Android & iOS.
• Djinni Library Template: A template for a Djinni library that comes with a CLI to build artifacts for each supported platform (XCFramework for iOS/macOS, AAR for Android, NuGet for .Net Core Windows, Conan for Linux).

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Last update: October 23, 2021