Android Studio supports, from version 1.3 RC1, the Native Development Kit. Although still limited, it is still functional and will provide most of its users enough features and stability to carry on using it.
To set up NDK, we first need to download it into our system. At the time of writing this book, the latest version of NDK can be downloaded from http://developer.android.com/ndk/downloads/index.html. If a prospective reader cannot find NDK in this location, we encourage them to search Google for the location of its latest version.
When NDK has been downloaded, uncompress the ZIP file and move it to a location of your choice. The folder will contain something similar to the following:
Each package here contains some different data files:
The
build
folder contains all the tools and packages that are necessary to actually build with the NDK toolset.The
ndk-build
is the script we will call to use NDK.platforms
include the required tools that we...