Android NDK updates, no more Java required

Wed, Jan 12, 2011

Android

Good news for everyone wanting to do more C/C++ on Android: with the newest NDK update (r5, available in Gingerbread) it’s now possible to develop apps and games solely in C/C++, even for sound there is no Java glue necessary anymore. Google’s Android developers also added a full example Activity implemented only in C to the demo library.

This update particularly simplifies building native Android games using one of the existing game engines in C/C++, which are available under all kinds of licenses ranging from open-source to freeware to commercial.

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