Android NDK Revision 10e

Will offer you the ability to call into native code from your Android applications

The Android NDK provides tools that allow Android application developers to embed components that make use of native code in their Android applications.

The Android NDK is a companion tool to the Android SDK that lets Android application developers build portions of their apps in native code. It is designed for use only in conjunction with the Android SDK, so if you have not already installed the Android 1.5 SDK, please do so before downloading the NDK.

The Native Development Kit comes with a series of cross-toolchains (compilers, linkers, etc..) that you can use to create native ARM binaries.

It provides a set of system headers for stable native APIs that are guaranteed to be supported in all later releases of the platform:

· libc (C library) headers
· libm (math library) headers
· JNI interface headers
· libz (Zlib compression) headers
· liblog (Android logging) header
· A Minimal set of headers for C++ support

The NDK also provides a build system that lets you work efficiently with your sources, without having to handle the toolchain/platform/CPU/ABI details. You create very short build files to describe which sources to compile and which Android application will use them — the build system compiles the sources and places the shared libraries directly in your application project.