What does native extension mean

hello i dont come from english speaking country and im not a good programer so does native extension mean making plug ins or something like that?

Native extension means special code to allow functionality on specific platforms. Usually you need native extensions for features that the Defold engine does not itself support. Features like using the camera of a device can be supported via native extensions even if interacting with the camera of a device is not part of core Defold.

Here is an example of a NE which allows you to vibrate your Android phone

This community NE allows doing many features on desktop projects which are important to professional game releases

Usually writing NEs means learning new programming languages besides Lua at least enough to do what you want to do.

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k thanks it is a bit like plug in thou (adding other programing language or a thing thats not in the engine)

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