Updated CONTRIBUTING.md with some tips.

Change-Id: Id377621a98804293837fda25ef0758cf988eea37

Previously, if you were re-using instances of FlatBufferBuilder
and an earlier buffer would use a 64bit item where later ones
do not, you could be wasting space.

Change-Id: Ic8090a38f97ce73194e991ba72bcfae74a7ace9f
Tested: on Linux.

getRootAs..() function now has a second implementation that
accepts an existing object to allow object reuse, much like
all other methods that refer to objects.

Change-Id: Iffef567c903a130761ef7de98867e5465d29a04d

Previously Android.mk only had a rule for the Flatbuffers test. There
is now an empty module definition so that flatbuffers can be included
as an Android module in other projects.

Additionally, android/jni/include.mk has been added which contains
some utility functions that can be used by projects using Flatbuffers
to generate header build rules and set up dependencies.

A sample project has been added to the samples directory to
demonstrate how to use flatbuffers with Android.

Tested by compiling Android project on Linux.

Change-Id: I25d6da40f6531777b22f7371187e0a2f4e903ad4

The satellite data of the ``ByteBuffer`` cannot be modified in
any way and stay thread safe in the presence of concurrent readers.

This implementation is simple and does introduce an allocation, however
without it multiple readers will quickly and continuously encounter
``IndexOutOfBoundsException`` exceptions.

An alternative, but possibly more controversial, implementation would
be to use ``Unsafe``.  Using ``Unsafe``, it's possible to do an
array copy with a provided buffer index.

Change-Id: I851d4034e753b3be2931ee2249ec2c82dde43135

Change-Id: I62d10b639112788be3b0f670280bd50ef9fcf094

init resets internal variables, but keeps memory that has been allocated
for temporary storage

Change-Id: If2aa7d27de3c2717cf4c82b1e4e4b6732e495cea

Change-Id: I95c550df7019645b02417259522c7049865997cc
Tested: on Windows.

Tested: on Linux

Bug: 16465909
Change-Id: I2f1a6def13e47716110426b00990c2c625c03251

optimization would cause vtable fields from previous tables to be written.

Bug: 19046968
Change-Id: I781f7bcbceeaec0b499d4f1e4e5e8a1e750e0707
Tested: on Linux.

Bug: 19067493
Change-Id: Ib32fef963306e27834c15e3bbabc60570924c1a9
Tested: on Linux.

startObject() now only allocates a new vtable array when it needs to grow.

Tested: on Linux.

Change-Id: Idd041605afcb9487a34d63bda067172d797f437a

If the schema didn't contain a namespace, paths would contain a
leading /, causing files not to be written.

Change-Id: I508772cbf6d18d464ef7d9f8842d0dbff14358a3
Tested: on Linux.
Bug: 19067493

and marks ``dataStart`` deprecated.

Change-Id: I48409e20948117c5cf17a1bfabecf64b033eab27

Change-Id: Ibdbd0e2f85284c1443403ed8c43acbd6e9de635f

Change-Id: I72e92183a7b5f4145ea51fcec29257dc9553a461

Unless in --strict-json mode.
Also added strict_json option to the parser, which in
addition controls if field names without quotes are allowed.

Change-Id: Id56fe5c780bdb9170958050ffa8fa23cf2babe95
Tested: on Linux.

Tested: on Windows.

Change-Id: I946dacf799eae835ec041ea759622f74b0384937

https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/java/pom.xml

This isn't good enough to publish to Maven Central but will at
least allow users to publish to their local maven repository
using 'mvn install'

Change-Id: I91ea146cf7c5263fcf5d9823f70bb1ef0158f9a6
Tested: 'mvn install' runs succesfully and produces a .jar

Change-Id: I34ea778fc791ecce3a8948de51dea6fe4389a3c6

Change-Id: I58b411a2c0f1ee6b856d5b1eaa42787036da1384

Bug: 16659276
Tested: on Linux & Windows.

Change-Id: Ie7a73810345fad4cf0a3ad03dfaa5464e3ed5ac8

Change-Id: Id1cc75cee07fa2d3de3e7d346f6e2641e4692968

Change-Id: I1f310636f8b74366b5b0fc73c7e106424583fc93

When FLATBUFFERS_BUILD_FLATC is set to OFF, the flatbuffer compiler
and tests will not be build.

Change-Id: I42b87b71daab4cb9c06605c813e7e4b62d6bf67a

Bug: 18908613
Change-Id: Ifed8a33b6b976b64eed9d190d930b08de1d5f41e
Tested: on Linux.

Previously, obtaining the buffer was unclear and required multiple
casts.

Change-Id: I18e01c9e669886ac250e83aad10623cbddd629b6
Tested: on Linux.

* changes:
  non-generic version of CreateUninitializedVector for c ffi
  cast literal to csize to fix error

Change-Id: Id7618e53797a158b82e7e480a6507887db3528bc

Change-Id: Ieddc3c5cd4f7c97a9739ae3046b8a1b328180ae1

Change-Id: I531c26572fca7fca9805178971d7e110d44627d8

Change-Id: I7dc4bb3bbe32c6fe83a013790391fba0df8f4888

If your C# runtime environment supports unsafe mode, you can use
the #define UNSAFE_BYTEBUFFER setting and build the FlatBuffers assembly
in unsafe mode for greatly increased performance.

Tested: Tested FlatBuffersTest on Windows using VS2010 with both safe
and unsafe versions. Added ByteBufferTest to test the byte reversing
functions.

Change-Id: I21334468b339334f9abf4317e6291b648b97f57b