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Android: First functional version. Notebook-less first page of dwtest works.
FindClass failed on any created threads.. using a modified version of this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13263340/findclass-from-any-thread-in-android-jni
Implemented dw_box_unpack(). Had to do this to fix an exception when
repacking a widget in dwtest's archive_add().
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