Intro to Android NDK - 03 - Installation

Part 3/10

While most Android apps are written in pure Java, Android's Native Development Kit (NDK) enables us to access code written in C/C++ via Java Native Interface (JNI). This is often done in the name of performance, or to take advantage of existing legacy code-base.
In this tutorial, we will see what NDK is, why we would use it, and build a simple application to see how to get started.

[fromthesanitarium]

where should I extract it in windows? I'm not a mac user so I didn't understand

[jaimedpcaus]

Hi Aleksandar,
First, thank you for sharing these great tuts.
Question: should I download the NDK everytime there is an update to it?
Perhaps a better question would be: when should one update/download NDK to fit the current/updated Android SDK?

-jp

[MarinelaX]

Hi. Thanks for the tutorial, it helps me a lot.

I have a question about the real PATH that I have to have on my system, [PATH]/android-ndk/r10e/ or [PATH]/android-ndk/?

[sofianhouari]

Can you explain mor and how install in nexus 5 with monitor mode

[zkull]

Hello! How can you do that in windows 7?? I have unzipped the ndk, but i don´t know what to do later to link it with eclipse.

[vijaykumar-jmfq]

this tutorial is only for mac not for window

[thewhisperinyourears]

most probably you will need to build the source unless thereis an installer probably using cygwin or mingw not easy task if you dont know how to