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How to build with Android NDK

Mon, 05/30/2011 - 05:42 | by bence

SDK Version: 
M3
The Android NDK is a companion tool to the Android SDK that lets you build performance-critical portions of your apps in native code. If you write native code, your applications are still packaged into an .apk file and they still run inside of a virtual machine on the device. The fundamental Android application model does not change.
First thing to do:
Go to http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html and download Android NDK.
Okay, now you unzip the downloaded NDK zip to your hard disk drive.

If you are a windows user, you also have to have Cygwin, go to http://www.cygwin.com/ and download the latest version.
Install it, and run it, you should see a "linux-like" console.
Go to your current project folder in your workspace by typing in console:
Windows users: something like: "cd /cygdrive/c/PATH_TO_WORKSPACE/PROJECT_NAME"
Linux and Mac users: "cd /PATH_TO_WORKSPACE/PROJECT_NAME"

To build project, type:
Windows users: something like: "/cygdrive/c/UNZIPPED-NDK-DIRECTORY/ndk-build"
Linux and Mac users: "/UNZIPPED-NDK-DIRECTORY/ndk-build"

Hope you found it useful,

Have a nice day!

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